National Guard Fighter Jet Strafes New Jersey School

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National Guard Fighter Jet Strafes School

Thursday November 4, 2004 9:46 PM


By WAYNE PARRY

Associated Press Writer

LITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J. (AP) - A 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.

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.

I think there's a "broad side of a barn" joke in there somewhere. Has anyone here ever flown fighter jets? Three and a half MILES off target? What's that?

National Guards need better training, I'm thinking. Or glasses or something.


DOH. Double thread, I saw another one as soon as I posted. Sari.





[edit on 5-11-2004 by Jakomo]

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I think bodrul is trying to say, that we have this covered already:

Fighter Jet fires on USA School...

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