International/Military Law

[dave_c]

Do Armed Forces Officers have the right to retaliate to Friendly Fire in order to defend themselves?

[vicalncraig]

If you are being fired upon you will not know it is friendly fire, just as those firing do not realise you are friend.
If you did realise it was friendly fire you would use your radio, as to return fire it would only emphasise that you are indeed foe.

[tamiya]

you would put up a contact report on your radios and wait for a response but to return fire you would have to consult your rules of engagement procedure,is it the yanks again?

[SLUGGER.U.K]

Obviosly the yanks tamiya...when was the last blue on blue UK forces attacking the yanks fiasco.....answers on a postcard please
UK forces are trained much better than US forces and do not have the shoot first ask questions later gung ho attitude the yanks have. I work with both the US and UK armed forces in the UK [air force and army but not the navy} and so speak from experience as to their military abilities. If given a target UK forces will use all available intelligence and survey it before attacking it, the US {especially the US marines} will attack the target to get the intelligence and then survey the damaged they just created, its just the way they do things... effective but dangerous to all....not just the enemy