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Combat identification training: Recognition of Combat Vehicles program.

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As of 31 January 2006 in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), the US Army has had 27 fratricides--friendly fire on friendly forces. Twenty-six of those were from direct fire and one from indirect fire (although not artillery indirect fire). Two of those incidents were ground-to-air engagements, and one was an air-to-ground strike--all others were surface-to-surface engagements. Fourteen incidents occurred during daylight hours and 13 at night. These fratricide incidents resulted in 11 US Soldiers killed and 10 other military fatalities. (Countermeasure, Vol 27, March 2006, published by the Army Combat Readiness Center at Fort Rucker, Alabama).

As these statistics verify, combat identification is still an unresolved problem on the modern battlefield, even during stability and support operations.

Combat identification has many considerations--situational awareness...

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