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...night of the crash, two F-15Es, which specialize in ground-attack missions, had spent close to three hours supporting grunts near the Pakistan border. But on their way back home to Bagram air base, they decided to practice high-angle strafing runs against 7-ft. dirt mounds in the middle of a dry lake bed. While they wouldn't actually fire their 20mm guns, the pilots had decided to practice one of the Air Force's most dangerous missions - diving toward the ground amid mountains on a dark night. Their heavy night-vision goggles, which work by amplifying existing...
...wearing night-vision goggles increases eyestrain and fatigue - and crashed at 2:30 a.m., the sleepiest time in the human sleep cycle. Night-vision goggles reduce depth perception, especially when there's little ambient light and the ground is flat and barren. The crew "channelized" its attention on the attack run, ignoring warning signs that danger was imminent. Finally, "expectancy" played a role. The crew had expected to dive for 10 seconds before simulating the firing of their gun. So when the warnings sounded seven seconds into the dive, their reaction times slowed because they believed they still had thousands...
...four officers had easy access to the data that would have prevented the crash, "but tragically no one caught the mistake," the investigation concluded. McDowell, of Colorado Springs, and Gramith, of Eagan, Minn., "were dedicated warriors who lost their lives trying to maintain proficient at an attack necessary to save other Americans' lives on the ground." Their co-mingled remains are buried under a single headstone at Arlington National Cemetery...
...invoked to justify American military engagement in Afghanistan and Iraq - we're fighting extremists there so we don't have to fight them here - has taken a beating of late. In September came the arrest of Najibullah Zazi, the Colorado man accused of plotting perhaps the gravest U.S. terrorist attack since 9/11. November saw Major Nidal Malik Hasan gun down 13 people - including 12 of his fellow U.S. soldiers - at Ford Hood, Texas, in the deadliest assault on a military base in U.S. history. The latest blow came Dec. 7, when the U.S. Justice Department filed new charges against David...
...insurgents, too, insist that they only attack schools that are being used as "police camps." In the November 2008 bulletin of a banned Maoist political party, an unsigned editorial states, "You cannot show a single instance where we had destroyed a school that was really meant for education purposes." HRW researchers contradict that claim, and say the Naxals attack schools as a way of intimidating the local population to keep them from cooperating with the military, who badly need better local intelligence...