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"Blue on Blue" casualties is a part of war, and any nation that does not understand that, and doesn't have the stomach to accept it, needs to keep their boys and girls home protecting their arctic tundra.
Especially these days, with high-tech weaponry systems, it's going to be TOO easy to kill our own folks. The military has created a number of systems to prevent that from happening, but communication failures result in deaths.
If you would check into the story behind that incident, you will find American National Guard pilots who are wonderful people, who were not informed of the presence of coalition forces performing "live-fire training" in that area (communication breakdown #1), who then thought he was being fired at, (mistake #2), and wandered outside his killbox to "engage the enemy" (mistake #3).
You never heard the Brits whine and cry in Gulf 1 when mistaken identity resulted in the deaths of about a dozen of their troops. Why? Because the Brits understand that this is an unfortunate part of war.
The Canadian public apparently engages in Arm-chair quarterbacking, a practice that will NEVER improve the world.
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No disrespect to the Canadian armed forces, and their victims of fratricide, but... New 
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