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Originally Posted by RKLover
Historically,NO MATTER WHO is doing the shooting, friendly fire has typically accounted for 35% of all casualties in ANY armed conflict. The U.S. Army is well aware of this, and had a goal, when I served, of reducing that to 25%
First recorded incident of friendly fire I saw on Wikipedia was about British Archers making pincussions of their own infantry sometime around 1460.
It would be difficult to imagine that the Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks, Persians and Romans miraculously avoided doing the same thing over thousands of years of those ancient empires history of armed conflict. I would wager friendly fire has been occuring since man first learned to throw a rock.
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Of course it's common... If someone hands you a gun and says "Someone is going to try to shoot you in the next 24 hours", you will obviously shoot first and ask questions later.