[MARTIAL MONK]

As bad as this sounds it is minimal compared to past wars. One statistic that sticks in my mind (was it from Lew Walt?) is that 25% of U.S. casualties in WWII and Korea were from accidents and friendly fire. That's a bunch. It took a lot of headknocking and a lot of unnecessary deaths to get the Generals to coordinate communications between services.

In the past incidents like this took hundreds or even thousands of lives per incident. In many cases it was kept quiet so as not to disturb homefront morale. Improving communication has significantly reduced the problem.

[not_apathetic_anymore]

thanks for the perspective on what its been in the past. I also got to thinking that since the total number of deaths is much lower than in other wars (WWII, Vietnam, etc) that the percentage of friendly fire may well be higher. I guess that says something good about how we've learned to protect our troops in general.