US Pilot achieve a whole new level of fail

[Hooahguy]

Again, Petraeus is not the focus of this thread.

Anyways, Ive been reading that the plane in question was an AC-130 gunship. So I asked a buddy who was in the Air Force about what could have happened. Apparently AC-130 crews dont have the same rules when it comes to firing their weapons as normal planes. Where other planes have to call out individual targets to bomb, the AC-130, once they get their initial clearance on a target, can follow that target and keep engaging without clearance. Im guessing that MSF didnt mark their hospital on the roof with the markings of a hospital. Then when they got reports of Taliban in the hospital from the Afghans, they began bombing the hospital without checking that what they were shooting at. So at best this is criminal negligence. If they knew it was a hospital and fired anyways, thats a war crime.

EDIT: and because its bothering me, what Petraeus said isnt exactly a new concept. We did something very similar in Iraq with the Sons of Iraq and the Sunni Awakening. And it actually worked.