h/t Laurence Vance: http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/...ds-more-money/
FTA: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...dly-fire-us-a/Originally Posted by Laurence Vance
Budget cuts, errant B-1 bomber blamed in deadly 'friendly fire' accident in Afghanistan
The “friendly fire” airstrike that killed five American soldiers in Afghanistan on June 9 is the first known case of a battlefield catastrophe that can be linked to automatic defense spending cuts that greatly curtailed prewar training.
A review of the worst American fratricide in the long Afghanistan War also shows that the military’s official investigation faults a Green Beret commander, an Air Force air controller and the four-man crew on the B-1B bomber that conducted the errant strike.
[ ... full article at link (it's a long 'un): http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...dly-fire-us-a/ ... ]
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