Jay T. Beatty wrote:
"Tank Fixer" wrote in
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As much as I hate to say it, in Daryls defense haven't
any of you
guys done a live fire exercise? Of course though those
times that
I have been involved in them, we were shooting at
targets near
other soldiers (by near I mean to say 100-200 meters
away, but
never any closer)but not at other soldiers.

I have, Ft Benning and other places.
And the idea that someone would delibetatly shoot a LAW
at other
soldiers in a training exercise is absurd.

I have had sabot shot over my position by mistake at a
range.
They shut the place down for two days to investigate.

Yeah, the whole LAW thing is a bit out of control.

I've been through live fire exercises too but, we don't do
them like the Soviets did where the fire is sometimes
falling "danger close" or closer to the troops maneuvering.

I think I would have heard about it too because in the 1980s
my cousin CPT Malcolm Quon was stationed there and an
incident like that would have been as infamous as the one
where some dufus put a CP tent up in a dry river bed at NTC
and got washed out.

I've heard of them taking tanks over cliffs at night, the
incredible sinking M113 and a few others that are pretty
strange but never heard of this incident with the 82nd and
the OKARNG.

Snark