Friendly fire means that they were accidentally killed or hurt by soldiers on their own side.
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- 23-Mar-2003, 22:00 #1Anonymous Guest
a friendly fire incident Early dispatches included reports of American POWs being taken by Iraq, a friendly fire incident, and a U.S. soldier lobbing a grenade into the tent of one of his commanders.
What does it mean? Thanks!
- 23-Mar-2003, 23:48 #2
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- 24-Mar-2003, 04:54 #3
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Yes. I suspect that the expression was intended ironically from the beginning.
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- 24-Mar-2003, 07:47 #4
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Re: a friendly fire incident excuse me , what does "POW" stand for, Tianshan? Originally Posted by tianshan Early dispatches included reports of American POWs being taken by Iraq, a friendly fire incident, and a U.S. soldier lobbing a grenade into the tent of one of his commanders.
What does it mean? Thanks!
- 24-Mar-2003, 12:03 #5Anonymous Guest
POW means Prisoner Of War
- 24-Mar-2003, 12:27 #6
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Re: a friendly fire incident Correction.
Excuse me , what does "POW" stand for? Originally Posted by vvaann
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- 26-Mar-2003, 12:12 #7
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Re: a friendly fire incident RonBee, thanks. Let's assume that i wanted to ask Tianshan only, what should my sentence be? I mean a polite expression. Originally Posted by RonBee Correction.
Excuse me , what does "POW" stand for? Originally Posted by vvaann
- 26-Mar-2003, 16:55 #8
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Re: a friendly fire incident So sorry. I didn't know you were directing that to Tianshan. <embarrassed> (All that sentence really needed was capitalization.) However, you can't really direct a question to one person only unless you send that person a private message. As you have seen, anybody can answer a question if he wants to. Also, if I post something in a thread the computer assumes that I want to know about any other postings in that thread. Originally Posted by vvaann RonBee, thanks. Let's assume that i wanted to ask Tianshan only, what should my sentence be? I mean a polite expression. Originally Posted by RonBee Correction.
Excuse me , what does "POW" stand for? Originally Posted by vvaann
Definitely, that question was asked politely.
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- 26-Mar-2003, 17:44 #9
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Dear RonBee,
I'm still a bit confused. I cannot think of a problem directing a question to a specific person regardless of whether others know the answer!
BTW, that's only the matter of making a sentence.
- 26-Mar-2003, 18:52 #10
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Sorry. I didn't mean to say there is a problem exactly. Originally Posted by vvaann
On most forums, if you post something to somebody only that person gets an email notification. On this forum, if you post something in a thread everybody who has posted in that thread gets an email notification. There isn't really any such thing as posting a question "to" somebody.
There is no problem.
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