National Guard fires on school

“OK, it was at night, but someone needs to get a grip.

First it was bombing trails, now they're strafing schools.
N.J. School fired on
I bet those folks feel better after hearing it was.... " inadvertent"


"The key is, it was inadvertent," O'Brien said. "It was not directed at the school."

Yep, thats the key all right.
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“I just heard that on NPR.

It's a wonder this clown could find his way back to Andrews Air Force Base near D.C.”

“Some of those pre-schoolers can be little terrors, New Jersey did vote for Kerry.”

“Oh yes that was meant to be sarcastic, I would guess that the pilot just flunked his (or her) instrument rating.”

“Somebody's in deep #&%!$.”

“No child left behind?”

“Nope, only the janitor.”

“This articles full of great quotes:

Bossard expressed thankfulness that no students were at the school when the rounds were discharged. "At least the timing was good," he said.

"Twenty five rounds? Wow! That can be dangerous," Brown said. "That kind of scares me."

"I just think this guy hit the button by accident," she said. "It was scary, but it's like, what are you going to do?”

“Little punks being educated by liberals could grow up to be dems. Nits make lice. Need to take 'em out while they're young.”

“No accident, the target range was about three and a half miles away.
20 seconds at 600mph a little under mach 1.
7000ft is pretty low for something flying that fast. The F16 can do about 1500mph but that would probably be with full afterburner and use up the fuel in two minutes.


Disoriented - mistake in instrument reading.
So much for the myth of 'precision bombing', very lucky that no one was hurt or killed.”

“There was ONE casualty. Somebody just had their career killed.”

“Career ?, Air National Guard.

Isn't Nat Guard a part time thing, not a full time job ??

May still have a job, inflating tires to correct pressure, polishing soot off afterburners.”

“Warren Grove bombing range is where they practice low-level air to ground attacks. I covered a reserve exercise there some years back and got to see the Warthogs unload ordinance in a big hurry. They loiter in the neighborhood to make strafing runs, so would be at low altitude for quite some time.”

“Air Natl. Guard.

maybe it was GWB making up the missing 2 years or whatever ?? so no-one could say he did not do his full term.”

“...for now...guns aren't fired by pulling a trigger like a revolver, Fast Movers are fly by Wire, that is, they are controlled by computer operated actuators....investigators will rule on the cause, and that cause may not be PILOT error. It takes a lot of ground support personnel to keep the weapons systems operating....”

“Is Bearmagnet in the ANG?”

“I wish! I hate Schools! The closest I got to working with dangerous super-secret govt stuff was at USAMRIID. The needed a Research Assistant for their BSL-4 lab. They showed me the isolation chamber and the strains of viruses they were working with; hemorrhagic, HIV, smallpox.

The thought of being a Hot-Zone cowboy literally made me drool. I think they saw my excessive enthusiasm and it scared the bejeebus out of them. ;)

Someday, I'll be there.......on the front lines.”

“From "Catch 22," anybody who wants to fight is crazy; anybody who does not want to fight is sane. Only sane people can fight.”

“John Ashcroft ordered the strike! After leaning that textbooks used in the teaching of Evoloution were present in the school. President Bush said in a press conference, that after spending a lot of time in his first term on foreign affairs he is turning towards a domestic agenda.”

“There are quite a few full time national guard jobs.”

“This guy ain't going to get one I bet.”

“God, I can't wait to get out of this hole, I mean state...”

“Where else is there to go?”