Charging the ramparts is challenging enough without an eye to the rear fearing friendly fire.
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Again, I had a different experience and this time friendly fire is what surprised me.
An initial review has said that the killings were not caused by "friendly fire".
The MoD said "initial reports" suggested the latest death "may have resulted from a friendly fire incident".
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The BBC's Adam Mynott said that to have two friendly fire deaths on consecutive nights was unusual.
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Military officials also said "friendly fire" killed three Israeli troops late Monday in an explosion in northern Gaza.
So-called friendly fire deaths -- when troops accidentally fire on allies or their own units -- are counted among combat deaths.
And this time, by trying to do too much, the Romney war room may have blasted its own side with lethal friendly fire.
The only other case of British service personnel being killed by in friendly fire involving American military personnel in Afghanistan in still under investigation.
"I am appalled at President Bush's casual dismissal of the "friendly fire" incident in Afghanistan, " Mark Ojah, a Canadian from Winnipeg, wrote from Texas.
Two British pilots were killed Sunday when their Tornado GR4 aircraft was shot down by a U.S. Patriot missile in a friendly fire incident.
He only discovered his father, Lieutenant A W Forbes, had been killed by "friendly fire" about a year ago when Mr Bowyer told him.
It told the story of a friendly fire incident during the Iraq war which claimed the life of a BBC translator, Kamaran Abdurrazaq Muhamed.
He was later cleared in the investigation, but was faulted for not immediately notifying Tillman's family of suspicions that it was a friendly fire incident.
It is a recognition that due to perhaps friendly fire, or collateral damage, someone has died and you're trying to make some form of recompense.
The initial review at the scene, by Nato specialists and Afghan government representatives, concluded the shooting was not a "friendly fire" incident involving British forces.
An off-duty officer was mistakenly killed by friendly fire in 2009.
The Blue Force Tracker uses satellite signals from friendly forces in the field to map their positions -- reducing the risk of so-called "friendly fire" incidents.
Combat Outpost Tillman, named after the NFL star and special forces soldier Pat Tillman who died in an infamous friendly fire incident, was one of those closed.
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Burridge is quick to criticise "evil weed" words, such as dishonest euphemisms that try to sound neutral when really they are negative, such as friendly fire and downsize.
McChrystal describes only briefly an incident that nearly ended his career years earlier: allegations of a cover-up involving the friendly fire incident that killed football-star-turned-Army Ranger Pat Tillman.
McChrystal told the investigators that he believed Tillman deserved the award, and that he wanted to warn top U.S. military and political leadership that friendly fire was a possibility.
Lance Corporal of Horse Matty Hull, 25, of The Blues and Royals, Household Cavalry Regiment, which is based in Berkshire, was killed during a suspected "friendly fire" incident on Friday.
Friendly fire and accidental discharge (which could injure the operator or others) are not as common as they could be without the training they give us about our responsibility to this deadly machinery.
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But McChrystal, whose appointment is subject to Senate confirmation, came under scrutiny following the 2004 friendly fire death of Pat Tillman, who gave up a pro football career to serve in the Army, in Afghanistan.
He then assaulted an enemy flanking force, successfully drawing their fire away from friendly Soldiers and ultimately forcing the enemy to retreat.
Immediately thereafter, he assaulted an enemy flanking force, successfully drawing their fire away from friendly soldiers and ultimately forcing the enemy to retreat.
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