Flight From Friendly Fire
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Friendly Fire
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Author : Richard Townsend Bickers
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 1993-09-13
Friendly Fire written by Richard Townsend Bickers and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-09-13 with History categories.
The term "friendly fire", referring to the unintentional killing or wounding of friend or ally, is an emotive one which provokes hostility and indignation; it suggests the incompetence, carelessness or stupidity of those who commit it, and excites pity for its victims. But such errors are often unavoidable or the fault of the injured party. Although familiar to the armed forces for centuries, friendly fire came into prominence during and after the Gulf War, a four-month campaign with only 100 hours' ground-fighting, on which the attention of the world was focused and where a host of news reporters were present. There were four incidents in which nine British soldiers were killed and 16 wounded, and 28 others in which 35 American troops died and 72 were wounded. Despite hundreds of similar events which went unreported in both World Wars and in Korea, those in the Gulf War were publicized as though they were the most outrageous calamities in the history of warfare. This book explores "friendly fire" from Ancient Greece to the present, and sets out to put it into military and historical perspective.
Friendly Fire Shootdown Of Army Helicopters Over Northern Iraq
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Author : United States. Congress. Committee on National Security. Military Personnel Subcommittee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Friendly Fire Shootdown Of Army Helicopters Over Northern Iraq written by United States. Congress. Committee on National Security. Military Personnel Subcommittee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Friendly Fire
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Author : Mike Friscolanti
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2014-05-27
Friendly Fire written by Mike Friscolanti and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Social Science categories.
The text below is an excerpt from Friendly Fire. It is the early morning of April 18, 2002, following the mayhem of a bomb attack on a section of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, outside Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Edmonton-based soldiers were conducting a live-fire training exercise at a former al-Qaeda compound when a U.S. fighter pilot mistook them for the enemy. At Tarnak Farm, A Company begins to board the trucks that will take them back to camp. Out of habit , Lt. Luft conducts a roll call of his platoon. 1 Section. Here. 2 Section. Here 3 Section. Alastair stops himself. There is no 3 section. Except for Cpl. Chris Oliver, the troops are either dead or in the medical tent. The guys left behind watch the trucks drive away. For nearly two hours, everyone has been operating on instinct, on training. but now, all the noise, all the adrenaline, are gone. It's suddenly real. Four men are dead. Outside the ambulance, Wilson and Speirs are chain-smoking Korea 88s, replaying the chaos and confusion of those first few minutes. Could we have been faster? Did we save everyone who could be saved? There will always be doubts... By now, there is little doubt about what happened. Some of the guys heard the jet. Some even saw it. They don't know the details yet. Nobody really does. But the Taliban doesn't have any F-16s. That was a U.S. bomb. "How could this happen to us?" Sgt. Favasoli asks Cpl. Filis. "How could this happen to coalition forces?"
Friendly Fire
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Author : Scott A. Snook
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2011-09-19
Friendly Fire written by Scott A. Snook and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-19 with Social Science categories.
On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopters over Northern Iraq, killing all twenty-six peacekeepers onboard. In response to this disaster the complete array of military and civilian investigative and judicial procedures ran their course. After almost two years of investigation with virtually unlimited resources, no culprit emerged, no bad guy showed himself, no smoking gun was found. This book attempts to make sense of this tragedy--a tragedy that on its surface makes no sense at all. With almost twenty years in uniform and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior, Lieutenant Colonel Snook writes from a unique perspective. A victim of friendly fire himself, he develops individual, group, organizational, and cross-level accounts of the accident and applies a rigorous analysis based on behavioral science theory to account for critical links in the causal chain of events. By explaining separate pieces of the puzzle, and analyzing each at a different level, the author removes much of the mystery surrounding the shootdown. Based on a grounded theory analysis, Snook offers a dynamic, cross-level mechanism he calls "practical drift"--the slow, steady uncoupling of practice from written procedure--to complete his explanation. His conclusion is disturbing. This accident happened because, or perhaps in spite of everyone behaving just the way we would expect them to behave, just the way theory would predict. The shootdown was a normal accident in a highly reliable organization.
Friendly Fire In The Literature Of War
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Author : Earl R. Anderson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-04-24
Friendly Fire In The Literature Of War written by Earl R. Anderson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
The term "friendly fire" was coined in the 1970s but the theme appears in literature from ancient times to the present. It begins the narrative in Aeschylus's Persians and Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story. It marks the turning point in Homer's Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid, the Chanson de Roland, Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage and Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato. It is the subject of transformative disclosure in Jaan Kross's Czar's Madman, Ron Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July, O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods and A.B. Yehoshua's Friendly Fire. In some stories, events propel the characters into a friendly-fire catastrophe, as in Thomas Taylor's A Piece of this Country and Oliver Stone's 1986 film Platoon. This study examines friendly fire in a broad range of literary contexts.
Friendly Fire Shootdown Of Army Helicopters Over Northern Iraq
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Author : United States. Congress. Committee on National Security. Military Personnel Subcommittee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Friendly Fire Shootdown Of Army Helicopters Over Northern Iraq written by United States. Congress. Committee on National Security. Military Personnel Subcommittee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Friendly Fire
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Author : Chris Staeden
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2010-05-26
Friendly Fire written by Chris Staeden and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-26 with Fiction categories.
The book Friendly Fire was created because many soldiers are killed on the battlefield by friendly fire. In addition, in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, there was a space ship crash and Aliens were abducted. The secrecy of the story has created much controversy in the world in which we live. This story is about the crash and the U.S. government trying to find the Aliens who were abducted. The story creates another concept how the actual story could have happened. There is a hero in the story named Friendly Fire. He is the supreme commander of Tron. He leads his forces in the battle to fight evil. The space frontier is challenged by the evil Premators who spread evil. The Ice Force is challenged by fighting evil to make good prevail. A certain number of planets called the Qyrad try to overcome the evil Trox. A girl from the planet Earth and an ex-intelligence officer work together to get the original Aliens back. The Earth duo works at keeping a war from starting with an Alien government. The heroic characters and all of the forces of evil shows that there is foreign life in space and Earth is only a small size in the big universe. May the force be with you.
Friendly Fire On Holy Grounds
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Author : Ira Jesse Hemingway
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2005-06-06
Friendly Fire On Holy Grounds written by Ira Jesse Hemingway and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-06 with Political Science categories.
To intelligently analyze President John F. Kennedy’s murder it would be critical to determine if JFK had made any threats that may contribute to such a serious retaliation. The Warren Commission with its impeccable integrity, surely would rise to the fallen President’s aid and defend the truth, honor, and American values. On November 13, 1963 in the New York Times a caveat was initiated by President Kennedy’s press secretary “the results of a Congressional study of stockpiling would be used by the Administration during the 1964 Presidential campaign” these seemingly innocuous words sent a shock wave of fear through the political status-quo. November 22, 1963 could not come soon enough to head off the political melt down in Washington D.C. JFK intended to create. After decades this story is unearthed it is essential reading to understand this American mystery. John F. Kennedy a President, a man, a father, and human being went to his grave trying to tell this story to the American public. You owe it to him to read the forbidden truth.
Identification Friend Or Foe
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Author : James MacLeod
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2012-11-29
Identification Friend Or Foe written by James MacLeod and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-29 with Family & Relationships categories.
Born and raised in Nova Scotia, Dewar MacLeod joined the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. He was attached to the Second Tactical Air Force, flying Mosquito aircraft in support of Allied ground forces in Europe when he was killed in action on September 29, 1944. His aircraft was shot down near a Belgian village, where he was temporarily buried. Sixty-two years later, in July of 2006, Dewars family learned his death may have been caused by friendly fire. In Identification: Friend or Foe, author James MacLeod, Dewars brother, who also served with the RCAF, chronicles the journey to discover the truth about Dewars death. Through a compilation of letters and emails, MacLeod follows the path of the investigation and the ensuing conclusions. With photos included, Identification: Friend or Foe, captures a piece of history of WWII and provides closure to events that occurred more than sixty-eight years ago.
Friendly Fire Whitewash
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Author : Denis MacShane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Friendly Fire Whitewash written by Denis MacShane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Friendly fire (Military science) categories.