New Jersey town divided over school strafing

New Jersey town divided over school strafing

Sunday, November 28, 2004

By Wayne Parry


Copyright © 2004 AP Wire

LITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J. -- The night custodian was going about her rounds when she heard the patter of what sounded like footsteps on the roof of the Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School. She thought someone might be running atop the building, but police found nothing.

The next morning, authorities realized what had made the sound: 20mm rounds fired by a National Guard F-16 fighter on a nighttime training flight over a target range four miles away.

The incident has divided residents of the fast-growing region around the Warren Grove Gunnery Range -- some fear for their safety, while others consider it profoundly unpatriotic to question the military during a time of war.
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But Terry Hickman, a 10-year Army special forces veteran, defended the range and the pilots who train there.

"Let 'em alone; they're over there putting their lives on the line for us," Hickman said as he prepared to hunt deer in Bass River, near the edge of the range. "That guy (the pilot) probably feels so bad about this. He's probably going to get sent overseas and he might not even come back. As long as no one got hurt, this whole thing should just be forgotten."
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http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=13215


Not Hickman

How on EARTH could ANYONE think that strafing a US elementary school could possibly be a good thing?? and to question it would be "not supporting the troops"???


weird times we live in..


By that logic, if a tank crushes a van with a family inside it, while training, it's ok because we are "at war"???? :eyes:

everyone should just drop it. ah. ill keep that in mind the next time i rob a bank


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