No. of Recommendations: 3
Why? The U.S. hasn't had a fighter shot down since (I believe) the Iraq war after 9/11. To have three fighters shot down in a single day is pretty bad, and worse by the fact that it was friendly fire - which is presumably an outcome that should always be avoidable through proper planning and coordination. No matter what else happens (and the first few days of the exercise have otherwise gone well), there's going to be a lot of investigation and Congressional hearings about how so monumental a mistake could have happened.
You're misconstruing things.
I'm shaking my head at Bill's comments.
Obviously losing 3 jets at once is very bad. That should go without saying.
But to say that there was no planning here or poor planning is asinine. As in, completely ignorant. No one here knows what exactly happened.
