[Rifleman]

Running this kind of drill in public places is nuts. It may be good practice, but as this event shows, mishaps that include the civilian population are inevitable. The military should drop the practice.

My sympathy to the cop, the same though a little less to the soldiers.

Tough cop though, if two spec ops guys can't take him at a traffic stop.

[Flyer]

Tough cop though, if two spec ops guys can't take him at a traffic stop.

Agreed, although the soldiers did think they were just "playing".

[sneakypete]

Running this kind of drill in public places is nuts. It may be good practice, but as this event shows, mishaps that include the civilian population are inevitable. The military should drop the practice.

Yeah,if you consider one case every 40-50 years inevitable,I guess it is. The military can't drop that practice because it is ESSENTIAL.

My sympathy to the cop, the same though a little less to the soldiers.

Why? They obviously thought he was role-playing too. Tough cop though, if two spec ops guys can't take him at a traffic stop.

Either one could have taken him easily if it had been a "real world" effort. It wasn't,though. They thought it was a part of the scenario that was being ran,so they didn't make any real effort to hurt him or "take him out". Only to restrain him. He was under no such restrictions,and the result is one dead and one wounded soldier.