Mistakenly using live ammunition in training: Is this becoming a trend?
Here’s another(!) one: Japanese troops fired 79 live rounds at each other in training the other day.
Here’s another(!) one: Japanese troops fired 79 live rounds at each other in training the other day. Fortunately, they apparently needed the training so much that no one got hit.
Here’s another(!) one: Japanese troops fired 79 live rounds at each other in training the other day. Fortunately, they apparently needed the training so much that no one got hit.
The rule of journalism is that you need three examples to make a trend. So I expect another such incident soon.
In another unhappy trend, more retired Navy officers were indicted in the Fat Leonard case. Is there a precedent for such a long-running investigation busting so many relatively senior officers, from captains to admirals?
Finally, a farewell to Commander Bond James Bond.
(HT to LK)
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Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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