DC Air Guard F-16 strafes Pennsylvania school (Olberman).

[DemoTex]

UFB! F-16 rolls in hot with 20 mike-mike on elementary school. That is not exactly what is un-fucking-believable. What is UFB is that the live-ammo target range is 3.5 miles from that school. Range accidents happen. Shorts. Longs. Overs. Unders. I've seen it all. In fact, the DC Air Guard has been the unit of some of the best fighter pilots I have ever known (for Guard guys). One was a truly hot-shot African American who I used to love to fly with at the airline.

Anyway, somebody fucked up: the F-16 driver and whoever co-located a school and a live-fire range within 3.5 miles of each other. For the children's sake, shut that range down!

[Bluebear]

1. AGAIN? They just did this in New Jersey last week!

What are they aiming for, blue states schools as a warning?

[krkaufman]

3. Yep, that's what they get for staying Blue. : ) n/t

[DemoTex]

4. Really? You got details plastic tur ... er I mean Bleubear?

Was it a DC Air Guard airplane? This is important. Meanwhile, I'll Google.

[Bluebear]

9. It was Little Egg Harbor school north of Atlantic City

LITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J. (AP) - A National Guard F-16 fighter jet on a nighttime training mission strafed an elementary school with 25 rounds of ammunition, authorities said Thursday. No one was injured.

The military is investigating the incident that damaged Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School shortly after 11 p.m.

Police were called when a custodian who was the only person in the school at the time heard what sounded like someone running across the roof.

Police Chief Mark Siino said officers noticed punctures in the roof. Ceiling tiles had fallen into classrooms, and there were scratch marks in the asphalt outside.

http://www.canada.com/news/oddities/story.html?id=2fd72154-e360-4367-8969-cf382d1c6afa

[DemoTex]

10. That's the one. It was not Pennsylvania. Not that it makes much difference

That was either my mistake or Olberman's. Probably mine. Sorry. Would that George W. Bu$h could ever be so contrite.

[Bluebear]

11. LOL fat chance on Bush. nt

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. You know...

That pilot? His life is hell, forever. Never will that be forgotten. He will always be getting shit for that.

[DemoTex]

6. Maybe, maybe not.

He did not hurt anyone. There will be a FEB (Flight Evaluation Board), but as a member of the DC Guard he/she could be politically connected. Look what that got Bu$h. Not only did he dodge his duty, escape an AWOL charge, and get an "Honorable", but he buried rumors of a similar range accident or, worse, the making of a range that wasn't a range. Bu$h should have been FEB'd several times. Maybe he was.

[RC]

5. How long till school is in session when they do this?

[intheflow]

7. This is just too freaky.

How could any American miss the fact they were shooting at a school? How many years have AF and ANG been flying in the US without any prior incidents? And then two times in less than one week?

:nuke: Our country is f*cked big time.

[bklyncowgirl]

8. Remember when the Navy dropped a bomb on some church in Vieques?

That's what we call in military jargan a whoopsie.

[DemoTex]

12. On my pre-Vietnam leave, I spent a night camping on a beach near Eglin

Big mistake. F-4s roared over all night dropping ordnance and firing guns. The range, I found out, was just beyond our camp (200 meters). Longest night of my life. Including the worst nights of Vietnam.