[Leisler]

Just in flight training we lost over 20,000. Do your remember the movie, I think, "It's A Wonderful Life?" There was a actor, who won an Academe Award, and had two arms blown off? Well he had it happen during demo training at Ft. Bragg. I suspect we lost one in ten due to training, and non combat.

Lastly, I don't believe the being issued real ammo, and firing it thinking it was fake. Fakes have no bullets, just crimped brass cartridge filled with powder.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

True. I can even see firing off a few "blanks" before realizing they had live ammo, but in a training exercise only a moron would keep shooting. The recoil is also much less with a blank.

[blu]

The movie was "The Best Years of Our Lives" I think.

[skepsel]

That movie was called "The Best Years of Our Lives", directed by William Wyler, and starred Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, and Hoagy Carmichael. Harold Russell was the double amputee vet and received 2 Oscars, one for best supporting actor and a special Oscar for giving hope to disabled vets. Looked it up on Yahoo when you mentioned it. Saw it (on TV!) as a kid and remembered being impressed .

Blu, ya beat me to it!

[Commie Basher]

Do your remember the movie, I think, "It's A Wonderful Life?" There was a actor, who won an Academe Award, and had two arms blown off?

I think you mean The Best Years of Our Lives, the film about returning WW 2 vets.