U.S. soldiers fire on German school and residential buildings

[Ichingcarpenter]

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July 11 2011


In one exercise U.S. soldiers have fired on civilian buildings in the Upper Palatinate. "They were shooting clearly in the wrong direction", said the Army.
At a shooting range with a machine gun at the Grafenwoehr training area in the Upper Palatinate U.S. soldiers have taken a vocational school and residential building under fire. The incident last Friday was currently being investigated, said the U.S. military.

"The shot has quite clearly in the wrong direction," a spokeswoman said the military training area on request. The bullets had taken on the training ground troops in two houses, a depot and at the Sports Center.

Outside the military base one's home and the professional school of St. Michael works were made. People are not harmed. The school was closed that is, when it was fired upon, sources said.

DAPD / jw
http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/weltgeschehen/article13481106/US-Soldaten-feuern-auf-Schule-und-Wohngebaeude.html

[Adsos Letter]

1. I was out on the bunker line at Graf back in the mid-1970's ...

one of the artillery batteries put a 155mm round 50 meters off the main road on the Graf base; nobody injured, fortunately.

However, a few years before I was there an 8" battery put a round into one of the mess tents on base; several dead and wounded resulted.

In both cases the battery Safety Officer missed either a mistake in the quadrant/deflection setting on the sight (second case) or the actual number of powder charges loaded (first case).

More of this stuff happens during training than the public is generally aware of.