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The military trains as close to actual combat conditiions as possible. During live fire exercises it is not uncommon to have deaths or injuries. There are always investigations to see if there was gross negligence involved or mechanical malfunction.
Live fire exercises are dangerous but necessary. It ultimately saves lives. To put it in perspective, more military people are killed by auto accidents, then by live fire exercises.
As far as people being killed by friendly fire in actual combat; it happens in every war, to soldiers as well as civilians. War is organized chaos.
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