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Greekgod
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the usa govt wont provide those statistics. its called colateral damage. probably more soldier get killed in accidental deaths, that colateral damage.
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USA doesn't release the data, but Pat Tillman was at least one friendly fire death, and a great hero also.
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Not sure exactly and I cannot find the source offhand but I've seen some estimates that as many as 40,000 US personnel were friendly fire casualties in World War Two. I suspect the percentage (works out to roughly 10%, IIRC) is somewhat lower today but I can't find any current figures. If I had to venture a guess overall I would say approximately 15% total, with some variation specific to various conflicts. Though it seems to become less frequent as technology, weaponry, and training improves it is still something that is almost bound to happen in the chaos of battle. Accidents do happen and life or death is often a matter of who sees who first and shoots. Factor in the stress, misperception, poor visibility, and a thousand other nearly infinite human variables and it is easy to see how it can happen. This leaves aside the deaths from accidents and other incidents in training. I hate it but that is the sad reality of it, we can still work to improve on it but short of war becoming obsolete I don't see any way to eliminate it totally.
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too many, seeing as one is too much
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One of the rules of war from Richard Marchinco. Friendly fire, there is none.
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Friendly fire is an unfortunate consequence of warfare. But not as prolific as the media would have everyone believe. We didn't have one case of it in my AO, although we did have a guy that was burned pretty good on his back. My gunner accidentally shot a pen flare into the driver's back.
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