[BluH2o]

You also don't go shooting tracers in a war-zone without reporting your position.

The Canadian troops were in a designated weapons training area adjoining, or in close proximity, to Kandahar. They were on an approved live fire exercise ... this "hot dog" pilot with an itchy trigger finger wasn't thinking clearly. Why in the hell would the Taliban fire tracer rounds (at night) at high flying aircraft? It would bring about instant annihilation, either from artillery at Kandahar or from the aircraft they were shooting at ... this "greatest warrior" of yours has crap for brains.

[Pukin Dog]

Hotdog pilots usually don't make it through flight school. They don't make it to the fleet, they don't make it to Top Gun, they don't become Top Gun instructors, they don't fly for the Guard. Smitty has nothing to prove to anyone. Anyone with Navy gold wings is a complete professional in the air, no exceptions. Those who might slip through the cracks usually kill themselves before they have a chance to kill anyone else. Accidents occur. Get over it. When you have long forgotten it, Smitty will still remember how he felt when he found out what he had done. If he can get over it, I'm sure you can too.