Originally Posted by Yakk

Canada, who is not busy, currently has a bunch of troops in Southern Afghanistan, fighting against the Taliban. The death rate of Canadian troops deployed in Afghanistan is 6 times greater than the death rate of American troops deployed in Iraq.

Canada is busy -- fighting a war against the remnants of the nation-state that actually was the home base of Bin Laden.

I'm glad to know how much Americans appreciate the help.

Originally Posted by NCB

We appreciate it, but expect us to do flips when the fact is Canadians cant even deploy their own troops without American help.

Originally Posted by Seaver

Friendly-fire from the air has been a problem from day one. There are rules which state that planes can fly no lower than 60,000 feet above the deck (higher in some parts). No matter how good you are, it's damn hard to tell the difference between dots at 60,000 feet.

They've discovered a problem which caused many of the incidents, same problem which killed many American soldiers. There is a GPS measuring device which reads it's current exact location, then you look through a scope where you want the bomb to go. It sends a lazer and reads the XYZ axises and determines your target's exact location. You then hit a button and it sends the GPS site to a plane overhead, and it then guides itself there.

Unfortuantely the manufacturer made an engineering error, if the batteries run out and you have to change them it reset's your target's location to your own upon re-booting. So it took a couple of times to realize our (both US/Canadian) troops were requesting air strikes on themselves.

But thanks for calling our airmen blind or stupid, you're welcome for the other 99% of successful airstrikes.