Our pilots need more training!

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I'm putting this here because nobody got hurt...while scary, I think this qualifies for one of them despair.com's posters...something like the one for Incompetence....
http://www.despair.com/demotivators/incompetence.html





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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A National Guard F-16 fighter plane mistakenly fired off 25 rounds of ammunition at the Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School in South New Jersey on Wednesday night.



The pilot was meant to fire the rounds some 3 1/2 miles away at a military target range, Lt. Col. Roberta Niedt of the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs told reporters in the Jersey shore township's police headquarters.

No one was injured as school was out and a lone custodian was inside the building when the bullets hit.

Damage was minimal as the non-exploding, 20 millimeter bullets left only puncture marks in the school's roof and the asphalt outside the building.

The fighter jet was part of the 113th Wing, District of Columbia Air National Guard assigned to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.

An investigation is being conducted into how the pilot mistook the school, located on Frog Pond Road, for a target range.
 
Hey, those fighter pilots are always mistaking schools, Red Cross shelters, and Chinese embassys for millitary targets--this is the first I've heard of it happening in our own country though. Usually we manage to get the nearsighted pilots overseas where they'll mess up someone elses county... :D
 
that'll be the official excuse..

"sorry, he was supposed to be in Iraq, dunno what happened"
 
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