That is pretty much a thing of the past. We have all seen the movies where the commanding officer writes the letter “your son died quickly and painlessly”… . Now if you want to spare the family of extra grief you get “Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld covered up my sons death!” No one wants to be accused of a cover up for just trying to something nice for a family.
I recall a story years ago on 60 minutes, that the military was covering up the murders of soldiers my making them look like suicides, clumsily ( like looping rope around someones neck to make it look like a hanging, but the rope is too long and the body lacked strangulation marks ). IIRC the military officials involved thought it made the military look weak for it’s soldiers to be murdered.
The 7.62mm chain gun on the Warrior APC is known to have a propensity for arbitrarily firing itself due to electrical shorts. This is delightfully known as ‘undemanded fire’.
Combined with a tendency for the turret to indulge in ‘undemanded traverse’, going on patrol with those things must be quite tense :eek:
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Putting an arrow on the string of a bow, is “nocking”. Following the “draw,” an arrow is “released.” Nocking is akin to chambering a round, but without the hammer “up”. Cocking (hammer up & ready to fire) = draw. Release = fire.
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