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| AMERICAN ’COWBOY’ PILOT SLAMMED BY BRITS |
| 2003-03-31 |
| THREE British soldiers wounded in a "friendly fire" accident lashed out yesterday at the "cowboy" American pilot who blasted their armoured convoy. One serviceman was killed and another is in intensive care after coalition markings on the Household Cavalry Scimitars were apparently missed from about 500 metres and only 50 metres above ground. Lance Corporal of Horse Steven Gerrard, 33, said: "Combat is what I've been trained for. I can command my vehicle. I can keep it from being attacked. "What I have not been trained to do is look over my shoulder to see whether an American is shooting at me." Damn, don't have a rearview mirror, oh sorry lad the Americans are used to drive the right side of the road. The A-10 anti-tank aircraft made two separate forays on the five-vehicle convoy - and survivors waved at him to try to attract his attention before the second. If I miss I'll come back "He had absolutely no regard for human life," added LCoH Gerrard. "I believe he was a cowboy. ???? The Brits are saying this, what about Basra? "There were four or five that I noticed earlier and this one had broken off and was on his own when he attacked us. He'd just gone out on a jolly. I'm curious about what's going to happen to the pilot. He's killed one of my friends and he's killed him on the second run." |
| Posted by:Murat |
| #6 The caps lock I can do without, but it's real news that's in circulation elsewhere. You can bet it will be played up bigtime by those who want to break Britain out of the coalition. And Murat kept it short - that's nice. Now if he'd just stop posting useless straight-from-the-Information-Ministry stuff like, "In a last gasp before their certain defeat, the Americans bombed five orphanages and a kindergarten." |
| Posted by: Sade 2003-03-31 14:41:06 |
| #5 Hey Fred, can you direct Murat to someplace where he can get his own blog site? Doesn't he get a limit of some kind? I don't come here for the propaganda, and his bold-facing is starting to get to me. |
| Posted by: Tom 2003-03-31 11:15:02 |
| #4 I can write about a dozen articles that start: "*fill in name* had just gotten off the phone with his/her wife/husband -- just a quick reminder that the kids had soccer practice that evening.. *fill in name* agreed that he/she was also looking forward to the vacation the happy family would soon be taking together.. Suddenly, *fill in name* felt the blast as the building shook with an enormous explosion -- fortunately for *fill in name's* family, his/her death was almost painless as the jet crashing into the WTC instantly vaporized his/her body..." touching, isn't it... war is horrible -- people (yes, even children) die -- it sucks, but it happens...... |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-03-31 08:22:28 |
| #3 Isn't the first, won't be the last, unfortunately. Friendly fire incidents have happened sporadically and both Brits and Yanks are to blame. Btw, do you know what a 'Caps Lock' key is for, Murat? |
| Posted by: Dar Steckelberg 2003-03-31 08:17:37 |
| #2 They say 'cowboy' like its a bad thing.... |
| Posted by: -----------<<<<- 2003-03-31 07:48:08 |
| #1 Don't wet yourself Murat, it's just one regrettable incident, not the end of the war. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2003-03-31 06:39:26 |