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you can't compare holly!
Posted by bushrat on Jan 13 2006
Dear Holly,
I wasn't gonna post on this thread until I saw your post.
1st, good luck over there and come home safely
2nd, I am not bashing you but we can't even compare weapons-handling practices by the military during wartime to any kind of hunting scenarios. Accidental discharges of weapons among our troops isn't as rare as you make it out to be. Below is a part of a news article on this. I just didn't want hunters to get the wrong impression from your post. Walking around in the field "locked and loaded" is not safe, and has killed many hunters. Of course it's totally necessary in wartime to be locked and loaded; I don't question that. And yes, percentage-wise, the numbers of troops compared to hunters isn't the same, but since soldiers receive so much more intensive training on weapons-safety and handling than do hunters, the number of accidental discharges in the military is still pretty scary. Best to you and keep safe, Mark.
"WASHINGTON — The Army is toughening its safety training following 16 deaths and at least 121 injuries from accidental gunfire in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001.
The Pentagon said many of the accidental shootings, which the military calls "negligent discharges," resulted from simple carelessness and the lack of rigorously taught safety habits. But even some highly qualified veteran troops, some ranked as high as captain, have had accidents, said David Martin, a civilian who manages troops safety in Iraq.
Defense Department figures show that 14 troops in Iraq were killed in accidental shootings. The total could rise; 17 more deaths from "non-hostile" gunshot wounds are under investigation, Pentagon spokesman James Turner said.
Such shootings wounded 121 U.S. troops in Iraq, Martin said. The Pentagon has not provided statistics for wounds from accidental gunshots in Afghanistan."
The above quote taken from this article:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-05-09-shootings_x.htm
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