Posted on 04/17/2008 1:33:17 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Two soldiers in a sport utility vehicle had the scare of their live when an F-16 fighter jet from Hill Air Force Base opened fire on their SUV at the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR).
The incident occurred during a nighttime training mission April 8 in which the fighter pilot was practicing shooting at ground targets.
A Hill Air Force Base spokeswoman says the soldiers were not hit, but did suffer minor injuries "while exiting the vehicle in rough terrain,"
The sport utility vehicle, a rental from Avis, was in part of the range where the Air Force uses live ammunition in mock combat. Lt. Beth Woodward says it was not clear whether the soldiers were supposed to be in the area when the pilot fired.
Air Force investigators have closed part of the range as they investigate the incident.
An investigation board, headed by 388th Fighter Wing Commander Scott Dennis, will determine whether the soldiers were in the wrong area of the range or whether the fighter pilot targeted the wrong vehicle.
The soldiers were part of a Joint Terminal Attack Control unit from Fort Lewis, Wash., training to identify enemy targets and direct U.S. aircraft to fire on them.
Somebody owes somebody a round of beers.
Yep.
Al Gore is a fighter pilot? Who knew?
I want to know what story the Air Force told AVIS when they returned the SUV
Haha, just another day in the rental car world.
Lol! I would like to hear that story also!
This would have been a great sequel to the stunt that they pulled in Jackass: The Movie.
Probably a new pair of skivies too.
Dayum@
To think that I was worried about the 90+ episodes in the Envoy I rented last January...
why in the h*ll are we using rental cars on field exercises?
“I thought for a second that Carl Johnson had jacked a jet again.”
Hillary was in the back - touring the facilities when all of the sudden.... bam... she comes under fire and dashes to safety with ..... hmmm ....Her Daughter! Yeah, that’s the ticket, she dashes to safety CARRYING Chelsea.
Then she tended to the wounded soldiers. (She was able to comfort them with her home-baked cookies she was carrying for the poor of Utah)
Oh, did I mention that she was a Mormon when she was a child?
There was a night-time training, and an “oops” and then, what? All the “bad-guys” got away?
Are you NUTS?
That works in my nightmares.
Was alcohol involved?
What can’t they pick on Hondas?
Somehow, someway it must have been the SUV’s fault.
Unless of course the fighter pilot was a liberal and decided that taking out an SUV would be in the best interest of the planet.
Probably needed a new set of britches when they got home.
A Hill Air Force Base spokeswoman says the soldiers were not hit, but did suffer minor injuries “while exiting the vehicle in rough terrain,”
THAT’S WHAT THEY CALL “BROWN TROUSERS TIME”!
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