On 8/9/03 9:32 PM, in article , "John
Halliwell" wrote:

In article , Red
writes
The R.O.E. will always require visual I.D. Why? Because somewhere there is
always someone with stars on his colar, (or who wants stars on his colar)
that is deathly afraid that someone will screw-up.


Not true (in training and in the fleet).

That's because going off recent events, someone will screw up,
particularly annoying when there's no enemy air activity anyway.

But perhaps it should be. Consider the OIF Patriot battery operators.
Funny how we hear/see all this press about our dudes dropping bombs on
Canadians in Afghanistan, but don't hear about the Patriot operators (or
folks that gave them the OK to shoot) that shot a Tornado and a Hornet.

--Woody