National Guard Fighter Jet Strafes School (in New Jersey)

[RamboLiberal]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=227410

National Guard F-16 fighter jet on a nighttime training mission strafed an elementary school with 25 rounds of ammunition, authorities said Thursday. No one was injured.

The military is investigating the incident that damaged Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School shortly after 11 p.m.

Police were called when a custodian who was the only person in the school at the time heard what sounded like someone running across the roof.

Police Chief Mark Siino said officers noticed punctures in the roof. Ceiling tiles had fallen into classrooms, and there were scratch marks in the asphalt outside.

Take that New Jersey for voting for Kerry.

[Zuni]

1. Bush orders napalm strikes on 'Godless' blue states

[Jack_DeLeon]

47. It was Cheney's Order

http://www.theonion.com/election2004/news_4041.php

[saigon68]

2. OOPS

[Desperadoe]

3. It was Shrub

completing his National Guard commitment.

[RamboLiberal]

4. Maybe it was - remember just recently they bombed PA

Must be one bad pilot!

[saigon68]

13. Better Late than never

[TheDebbieDee]

15. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Scurrilous]

24. LOL

Good one! :thumbsup:

[montana_hazeleyes]

40. LOL

Thank you eddie4664! I needed a good laugh.

[GarySeven]

5. It's a little game called intimidation ...

Just to let you know that he has the military and that there's NOTHING we can do to overthrow what will be the most brutal and sadistic regime of terror the world has ever known.

[pleiku52cab]

6. I thought awol no longer qualified for a pilots license

[Ivote]

7. Unbelievable Jets shooting in our neighborhoods now

The pilot of the single-seat jet was supposed to fire at a target on the ground three and half miles away from school, said Col. Brian Webster, commander of the 177th Fighter Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard. He does not know what happened that led to the school getting shot up.

The plane was 7,000 feet in the air when the shots were fired. The gun, an M61-A1 Vulcan cannon, is located in the plane's left wing. It fires 2-inch-long bullets that are made of lead and do not explode, said Webster.

"The National Guard takes this situation very seriously," said Lt. Col. Roberta Niedt, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. "The safety of our people and the surrounding communities are our foremost concern."

[htuttle]

9. "The national guard takes this situation very seriously"

Guys, don't beat yourselves up over it -- you just strafed an elementary school, that's all.

Oh, you mean it WASN'T in Iraq? Well then, that's an outrage!

[flygal]

57. OMG - that would be funny if it wasn't so fucking true!

[TheDebbieDee]

17. Lt. Wrongway Jackson, Fighter Pilot : ^ P

[atreides1]

23. I Wonder

Is this an example of that "precision bombing" we keep hearing about in Falujah. I see the training is paying off.


By the way I think that the Vulcan fires either 20mm or 30mm rounds.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

8. they couldn't find a wedding!

[prodigal_green]

12. LOL

a little to the right, by the community center.

[TheDebbieDee]

20. Oh, GreatCaesarsGhost, that's BAD. LOL!

[GregD]

10. last week it was a bomb dropped in PA

WTF is going on here?

[wicket]

11. wtf?!?!?!?!?!?!!

[KurtNYC]

14. Accountability

"for schools that under perform...there will be consequences"

[TX-RAT]

16. That will make hit the books.

Damn we just got licks.

[AP]

18. Practicing for Iraq. I hear a wedding party in Trenton also got hit.

[peterh]

33. Practicing for the revolution

Night time strafing of an empty school….I think the aim was eerily on mark :scared:

[AP]

35. No public school left intact.

[havocmom]

19. Dept of Homland Fuckups

Duct tape, get yer handy dandy duct tape!

how many will that be, sir? Want some plastic sheeting with that? There, now, don't your feel safer?

[luaneryder]

21. Jumpin Jeebus

I thot the KyNG screwed up bad at Ft. Knox when they fired what they thot was a dummy round out of a LAW antitank weapon and it ended up taking a chunk out of the top floor of the base hospital. It wasn't a dummy, but the idiot who fired it without first checking it out was. Thank god * wasn't flying this aircraft.

[n2mark]

22. Hey!

We are just taking care of those children left behind.

[Cocoa]

25. recruiting maybe

showing kids how cool the Air Force is.

[Southpaw Bookworm]

26. Target Practice for Fallujah

Got to make sure he gets those little Ay-rabs in their seats before they're able to flee to a safer place.

Fuckwit needs to be dishonorably discharged NOW.

[DELUSIONAL]

27. Well the poor guy needed to practice before going to Iraq

they just gotta keep the civilian death count high and that takes a lot of practice. After all the nerve of those people in Iraq wanting to go to school. (sarcasm off)

[pinniped]

28. Those bullets are 3 inches long.

n/t

[Blue_Tires]

29. how the fuck do you end up

3.5 miles away from target?? i suspect a demotion of rank and suspension of flight status (who am i kidding??? they'll just cover it up, stall, and hope everybody eventually forgets!!!!!)

[Sara Beverley]

30. Damn those "blue states" they'll get us yet.

And so the shit begins.

[tired of bush]

31. Flight 800

Truth is stranger than fiction...unbelievable....but is it any more unbelievable that the military was responsible for shooting down flight 800 with an errant missle and then covered it up?

[JohnyCanuck]

32. They can count themselves lucky they didn't use

Depleted Uranium.

It fires 2-inch-long bullets that are made of lead and do not explode, said Webster

[short bus president]

34. I'm really sorry - I'm trying not to laugh

WTF is the NG doing firing live rounds at anything 3 miles from a goddamned elementary school?

Laugh or cry on this one, folks. I've cried too damn much lately.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

36. Better question yet... what in the hell is a ground target doing WITHIN

3 miles of an elementary school?? Some serious questions need to be asked AND answered.

[Cornjob]

37. The 177th Fighter Wing...

"The Flying Schoolbusters"

[Media_Lies_Daily]

38. Hey, now! He thought he saw Osama running across that roof!

[FlaGranny]

39. Good God - most elementary schools

are right in the middle of residential neighborhoods. It's a good thing it was nighttime and it's a good thing he hit the school instead of someone sleeping in their bed.

Edit: I think there is a Naval Air Station very nearby Little Egg Harbor - there used to be. My brother was stationed there years ago.

[Princess Turandot]

50. Someone from the town said they were 'very good neighbors'..

(I don't know who he was; this was on the local CBS news at 11PM)

I wonder who would be a not so good neighbor.

[Cornjob]

41. "Just testing our new Halliburton Target Aquisition...

System, said Former Cammander Col. Brian Webster, as he was being escorted to the brig.

[jobycom]

42. Wow, there really is a Little Egg, the same one from the Great Gatsby?

Don't know why that surprises me. I guess growing up in the south reading the book it has sort of a mythical sound to it.

[FlaGranny]

54. Yes,

there really is a Little Egg Harbor in addition to Egg Harbor. Very, very old names that were in place well before the Revolutionary War. I remember the name of the Navy base now - it is Pomona Naval Air Station, and they do have a reserve unit.

[Endangered Specie]

43. Republians know that education hurts their cause.

[RedSock]

44. it says after 11 pm

it's only 10:09 now.

wtf?

[nookiemonster]

45. Yellow buses

hate America dammit! LOL!


:P

[Jack_DeLeon]

46. Its a good thing....

no child was left behind. :eyes:

[exJW]

48. Just celebrating the election. Firing his guns in the air.

It'll probably become an outlawed but winked at tradition.

[alexisfree]

49. practcing for the real thing

[drdtroit]

51. "That's one hell of a bad pilot" n/t

[JSJ]

52. the military- like their patron, fuckbush- will do any fucking thing...

...it wants. After all, who's going to stop them, now? Fuck the troops!

[WoodrowFan]

53. NO NO NO, strafe OHIO! OHIO!!!!

damn DC National Guard can't even strafe the right state. OHIO!! That way!! (points west) If you overfly and hit Indiana or Kentucky that's fine!

[Chiyo-chichi]

55. Vigilant Guardian II ? n/t

[readmylips]

56. This is a joke...right???

Last news I listened to, Mrs. Edwards has breast cancer. That broke my heart. Now I read about these fuckers using an elementary school in New Jersey for target practice. For sure, those religious bible states will get that they prayed for. We're the Satans so God don't need to mess with us.