Has anyone got a more accurate description than ' Friendly fire' to describe the death of soldiers on your side?
2006-07-27 15:33:50 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
i hate that term...it makes me cring >: ( and i bet it pisses off the families of the people that died from "friendly fire"
2006-07-27 15:39:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
No, it is friendly fire. The soldier killed was killed by mistake by a friend. It seems like an accurate description to me. One of the hardest deaths to accept by all.
2006-07-27 15:40:35 · answer #2 · answered by Wolfpacker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. mulligan's 1 had it right. What else are you going to call it? Give it any name you want it's still a very sad thing. The military trains hard to avoid mistakes but they still happen. Sometimes it's not the result of a mistake. There are times when due to circumstances an F.O. may ignore a danger close when calling a fire mission...it's a calculated risk. 1,000 things can go wrong and unfortunately you don't get to restart the game.
James c take your anti-American bigotry and stuff it.
2006-07-27 16:55:24 · answer #3 · answered by RunningOnMT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friendly fire usually happens due to not paying attention. Such as having a round chambered and dropping it, and it goes off and hits someone. Or lack of communication. Such as firing a mortar without being told that other soldiers are in the area.
~El-Matto
2006-07-27 15:37:31 · answer #4 · answered by El-Matto 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is actually a difference between friendly fire and accidental shooting. For example an accidental shooting is like when a weapon misfires on the firing range, a weapon is dropped and it fires or any similar act of carelessness... but friendly fire is when there is an actual shootout between sides... for example, there is a firefight between sides and he/she was caught in crossfire, or one of our allies mistook him/her for the enemy for whatever reason, maybe a round from our side ricochet... i could go on with examples but bottom line is there is a difference. Hope that helped
2006-07-27 18:17:39 · answer #5 · answered by ragsdalemb 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friendly fire is just another americanism
2006-07-27 15:43:29 · answer #6 · answered by g8bvl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blue on blue is the term the military use normally I believe.
2006-07-27 15:44:13 · answer #7 · answered by acidedge2004 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genocide? I don't know...but I hate that term friendly fire.
2006-07-27 15:36:46 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fragging implies purposful fratricide, whereas fratricide is usually inadvertant. non-combat accidents are not usually termed fratricide. Fratricide is when a soldier is killed in action accidentally by his fellow troops.
2006-07-27 15:43:05 · answer #9 · answered by Charles D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is supposedly a nicer way of saying Oops! We accidentally killed one of our own. Yes, this bugs me.
2006-07-27 15:36:03 · answer #10 · answered by Teacher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing as friendly fire, all fire is very unfriendly.
2006-07-27 15:40:18 · answer #11 · answered by David 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋