[Alberta's Child]

I'm not sure anyone is being "railroaded" here. This incident is remarkably similar to the one in which that Navy plane out of Avianno in Italy flew took down that cable car in the Italian Alps and killed all those skiers. The military put the pilots through a lot of hell (and in that case the crew of the aircraft was primarily at fault), but in the end they were acquitted of the major charges when brought up before a court-martial.

[cynicom]

Military people sometimes do stupid things. Many years ago, we use to hunt for cargo ships in mid-ocean, then do a low level bomb run on them from out of the sun, with bomb bay doors open. At the time it was fun to see the ships crew running to and fro. Dumb, yes it was. Now and again we would dump scrap from in-flight lunches on them.

[Centurion2000]

This incident is remarkably similar to the one in which that Navy plane out of Avianno in Italy flew took down that cable car in the Italian Alps and killed all those skiers

Wrong, that was not combat, this was. When someone is shooting at you the rules change.