The war in Utah
Matt LaPlante of The Salt Lake Tribune offers a dramatic account of a friendly fire incident on Utah's sprawling West Desert training range that riddled an SUV and nearly left two soldiers dead. Ironically, the men were training with the Air Force to prevent friendly fire mishaps in combat.
Instead, a series of minor errors caused a pair of F-16s to confuse the soldiers' rental Suburban with a practice target and as the jets opened up with incendiary cannon rounds. The soldiers survived with shrapnel wounds.
Army spokesman Joe Piek explains:
We train as we fight. And fighting is dangerous work.
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