Accidental Shootings

[vim_fuego]

Seems to be quite a lot going on...

At least eight members of the armed forces were accidentally shot and injured in the past year, the Ministry of Defence has admitted.

The Royal Navy Assault ship HMS Bulwark and at the Army field training centre at Sennybridge in Powys, mid Wales, witnessed two injuries as a result of “accidental firearms discharges”.

There were further incidents at the Commando base in Lympstone, Devon, Bassingbourn Barracks in Cambridgeshire, Camp Bastion in Afghanistan and at the British Army Training Unit Suffield, in Alberta, Canada.

Anyone care to fess up to an ND?

Are we training people to hard or aiming for a little too realism?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/eight-british-troops-shot-by-5334648?

 

[Teh Wal]

Let's face it, we expect our troops to be the best and to acheive that they have to train hard in dangerous environments. I'm sure that risk management is undertaken extremely seriously in training areas but given some of the stuff they have to do I'd have thought only 8 incidents a year is relatively acceptable... it's hardly on the scale of Exercise Tiger.

 

[FOMz]

I witnessed a Lynx pilot have an ND in Iraq..... All covered up. The Sgt Rock that was with me at the time went mental when he heared.His protests were ignored...

 

[Downsizer]

We've all done it. Right........???

 

[iainrm]

Phantoms 1 Jaguars 0

Phantoms 1 Jaguars 0

Mid 80's, pilot got retrained.
Jag pilot got a award for waiting until the winder hit!!

 

[Dragoon]

Of the few joys of working in a Comcen, reading such reports was a highlight. (Assuming of course they weren't too serious)

I recall reading of at least two RAFP shooting themselves with holstered pistols in some AFG location, as well as the very unlucky story of a Pongo giving instruction on how to load a GPMG only for him to ND a live round in the process which then hit a poor sod in the back of the leg some distance away sat in a welfare tent.

An exercise in Sennybridge saw a tired airman ND a blank round when his barrel was mere inches from a sleeping FS. As there were no Rocks around the OC took the lad outside, admonished him then came in and addressed the group with "This didn't happen, alright?"

I'd say they were fairly common at all times, its just when a paper picks up on a few and makes a story out of it that it suddenly becomes a seemingly big issue.

 

[Mustang]

Mid 80's, pilot got retrained.
Jag pilot got a award for waiting until the winder hit!!

If the incident you're referring to is the one I have in mind then the F4 pilot tried to warn the Jag pilot on guard, but he wasn't listening on guard, so the first thing he knew about it was when he heard a loud bang and his Jag fell apart at the seams. The crash site consisted of two black smoking holes in the ground.

 

[Talk Wrench]

I know of an ND from a Tonka. At the arming pan. At the secret area 52.

 

[spike7451]

Snowdrops on the SSA site at Bruggen had a couple when I was there,we had to test & gauge the pistol's serviceability for the BOA to see if they were serviceable,which they were.

 

[vim_fuego]

I once shot a WRAF in the face at STM...It was thoroughly intentional though and no administrative action followed...

 

[Warwick Hunt]

I once shot a WRAF in the face at STM...It was thoroughly intentional though and no administrative action followed...

Yeah, but what happens in your room in the block after the Thursday Bop has little to do with this thread mate.......;-)