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Danny Piper, a retired Air Force colonel, once believed the Air Force could fairly investigate its own wreckage. He's changed his mind, he says, "the hard way." On April 14, 1994, his daughter, Lieut. Laura Piper, 25, was one of 26 people killed when Air Force F-15s shot down two Army helicopters over Iraq. Four senior officers, including two generals, have declined to testify at hearings, citing the right against self-incrimination. The court-martial of AWACS Captain Jim Wang, the only officer facing trial in the shootdown, is scheduled for next week. The tragedy, says Diehl...
...Force said today that it will court martial Capt. Jim Wang, the chief of the crew on the AWACS plane that failed to warn off two F-15s last April before they shot down two U.S. helicopters over Iraq, killing 26. The Air Force dismissed charges against four other AWACS officers under Wang, who will be tried on three counts of dereliction of duty. If convicted, Wang faces dismissal from the Air Force and up to nine months confinement. The Pentagon's move comes after families of some of those killed in the "friendly fire" incident lashed out publicly against...
...Force investigator probing the April mishap in which two U.S. Army helicopters were downed by friendly fire over Iraq recommended that no charges be brought against the only pilot facing judicial action (two F-15s were responsible for the shooting). If senior commanders accept the recommendation, only one person -- the senior officer on board the AWACS plane monitoring the area's air traffic -- could face a court-martial for the accident in which 26 people perished...
...Force F-15s, British Tornadoes and French Mirages, launching from bases in Italy, join in with precision bombing of Serbian militiamen. The attacks go on night after night for months. Meanwhile allied agents supply the bedraggled Bosnian Muslim troops with new artillery and tanks, along with advisers to show how the weaponry works. Before long, the land battles among Bosnia's warring peoples become more evenly matched. At that point, perhaps, the Serbs might finally be willing to make peace with the Muslim-dominated Bosnian government...
Then there's the arms-for-export approach: If the U.S. can't afford any more high-tech weapons, find some Third World potentate who can. Saudi Arabia gets its F-15s; Taiwan gets F-16s (in violation, incidentally, of a 1982 agreement signed with China). Why not atom bombs for Ciskei? Cruise missiles for Serbia? Lofty moral objections aside, one problem with the export approach is that it puts the U.S. government in the unseemly position of pimping for the military- industrial complex -- using taxpayers' money, for example, to set up arms fairs abroad. The other problem is that...