MAKO69 186 Posted June 10, 2014 5 American Special Operations Forces troops killed in Afghanistan in possible friendly-fire incident. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/06/10/nato-says-5-service-members-killed-in-afghanistan-attack/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CowboyTodd41 134 Posted June 11, 2014 Bomb came from a B-1, don't know if it's Ellsworth or Dyess deployed right now :( Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nesher 628 Posted June 11, 2014 very sad news! my condolences to the families. RIP. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+ianh755 196 Posted June 15, 2014 (edited) I was supporting the air Ops from October 2001 and remember when an ODA team also took friendly fire. That was traced back to a simple mistake using the handheld Laser Designator which, when the batteries were replaced, gave your current GPS co-ordinates until you acknowledged that your GPS location was correct. Only then would it show the targets co-ordinates and in the heat of battle the FAC missed the acknowledgement and thought the GPS co-ordinates the LD was giving him were the targets and called the strike in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Sayyd_Alma_Kalay_airstrike http://time.com/2854306/the-curse-of-friendly-fire/ Edited June 15, 2014 by ianh755 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
