‘Friendly Fire’ Deaths Traced to Dead Battery: “…the Air Force combat controller was using a Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver, known to soldiers as a plugger, to calculate the Taliban’s coordinates for a B-52 attack. The controller did not realize that after he changed the device’s battery, the machine was programmed to automatically come back on displaying coordinates for its own location, the official said.” Washington Post [And we want to start using battlefield nukes??!! –FmH]
