Well it took a little more than two years but.... some justice has been delivered in the case of the four members of the PPCLI killed in a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan.
However as seen in the post provided by AlphaSigOU there is still a some biterness... mainly directed towards Mj. Schmidt and his apparent inability to accept any blame or take any responsibilty for his actions.
Personally I'm happy that he won't fly again, and hopefully this will also preclude him from being a instructor as well... if he had accepted resposiblity I would have had no problem with him being an instructor... perhaps if he had demostrated the honour of the other pilot involved...
For another take on the story (well from the Canadian point off view) use this link to the CBC story:
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/07/06.../schmidt040706
For something a little more indepth on the whole thing the following link is pretty good:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/friendlyfire/
Oh and here's a link to the text of the verdict:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/fr...e/verdict.html
I think the text speaks for itself (it's pretty harsh in its language)... and pretty much covers my feelings on the case.
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