Open day at military barracks, you know, where they demonstrate all their weapons and other gadgets. I’ve been to a couple and they are quite interesting.
Near Carcassone in France on the weekend there was one such, and marines gave a demonstration of a hostage liberation exercise. Unfortunately their weapons were loaded with live ammunition rather than blanks. Result: 15 civilians and 2 soliders injured – 4 seriously, with 2 said to be critical.
One soldier had been detained, although no explanation was immediately forthcoming for why the wrong ammunition was loaded into weapons. A police spokesman said that investigators believed the deadly ammunition was loaded by mistake.
I wonder how long it took for the “oh shit, oh fuck” realisation to occur among the soldiers.
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it was actually in the last minute news here in italy just a while ago…that thing that happened to military in france and affecting/wounding those 15 soldiers. what a mistake!
Yep, I can see your title written in the notes to HQ – OOps!