Friendly Fire
By LK2018
@Letranknight2015 (52665)
Philippines
June 29, 2018 1:22am CST
In my country, Both the cops and military mostly worked together to fight against multiple insurgencies left and right.
But this is the first time that they end up fighting each other. Called it mis-encounter, but this is dumb because they're just meters away from each other.
I don't know what the cops were doing in the mountains but they shouldn't be there unless they coordinated with the army.
What should they have done to avoid this from happening? They thought they were communist rebels, they weren't wearing uniform.
Rebels are definitely laughing now.
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16 responses
@mlgen1037 (29882)
• Manila, Philippines
29 Jun 18
Wow. And we are on our way to our downfall. Goodluck.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
29 Jun 18
Hello @mlgen1037 Not really, this is one of those isolated incident people don't want. But chain of command is at fault here.
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@mlgen1037 (29882)
• Manila, Philippines
29 Jun 18
@Letranknight2015 For sure it is but it says something how things are handled here. It is not nice to hear these kinds of stories.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
29 Jun 18
Hello @rakski I hope it doesn't happen again, we don't have really have that much no. of cops and soldiers anyway.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
29 Jun 18
there are many instances that our military men and police authorities get this friendly fire encounters. i hope those in authority will be vigilant of the other troops and not openly fire at them.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
30 Jun 18
@ridingbet I don't remember it, was there a video? well, it's sad we didn't learn our lesson.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
30 Jun 18
@Letranknight2015 that is true. the minds of our soldiers are in congruence with the mind of the president of our country
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
30 Jun 18
@Letranknight2015 i don't know if you cannot remember, but there was another misencounter between the police and the military personnel.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
29 Jun 18
Hello @josie_ What I don't understand is what were they were doing over there.
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@josie_ (10033)
• Philippines
1 Jul 18
@Letranknight2015 _Maybe they are the local police force in that area. Police precinct have been targeted by rebels in the past.
@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
29 Jun 18
I really wish thdat everyone works in a pre planned manner
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
29 Jun 18
Hello @amitkokiladitya It didn't on this one and some one needs to be accountable.
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@Starmaiden (9308)
• Canada
29 Jun 18
Who needs enemies when you kill your allies. That has also happened before with the Americans firing at Canadians during the Gulf War and the war in Afghanistan. 
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32760)
• Calgary, Alberta
29 Jun 18
I hope you wont be offended but I am dying of laughing the moment I read this. Who trained these people? How did they end up with a licence. This is where leadership is needed. Bad leadership leads to mishaps like this.3 people like this
@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
29 Jun 18
Hello @Starmaiden This was result of miscommunication and negligent leadership.,
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@Starmaiden (9308)
• Canada
29 Jun 18
@CaptAlbertWhisker "Friendly Fire" should be at the top of the list of oxymorons. 
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
29 Jun 18
They should work together really but this happens here too.
Not on a large scale but enough for them to be almost enemies sometimes.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
30 Jun 18
@Letranknight2015
How awful for the families of those men and prayers and condolences go out to them as well.
Terrible thing to happen.
@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
29 Jun 18
Hello @lovinangelsinstead21 For me, six officers who are doing their duty and not acting like criminals die this way is already horrible as it is.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
30 Jun 18
@lovinangelsinstead21 Yeah six of them did.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
29 Jun 18
That is really sad that they have coordination what so ever @SIMPLYD and yeah there should be accountability.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
29 Jun 18
Hello @jstory07 I hope they don't make the same mistake and work with each other.
@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
29 Jun 18
But they didn't and there's at fault over here in the chain of command @sol_cee
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
30 Jun 18
Hello @cintol I have no idea, but it was clear that there was a huge miscommunication from the higher ups.
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
30 Jun 18
@Letranknight2015 Definitely, hope no one was killed or injured in that little mishap.
@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
30 Jun 18
Hello @JustBhem That's what they didn't do and the Army thought they're the only ones with the Authority in the area.
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@Jessabuma (31696)
• Baguio, Philippines
29 Jun 18
Hi! I watched the news about this just now, it's really sad news.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
29 Jun 18
Oh, they reported this again? @Jessabuma yeah sad for those police officers.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
30 Jun 18
@Jessabuma I know he would and have this incident investigated.
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@simplfred (20641)
• Philippines
29 Jun 18
I haven't read the news yet. Oh, I am so outdated. Is this just happened recently?
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
29 Jun 18
Hello @simplfred yeah, it happened recently and it's sad they had to go through this.
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@simplfred (20641)
• Philippines
29 Jun 18
@Letranknight2015 Yeah, I've read the article of yahoo. That's really sad.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
30 Jun 18
I have no idea. The police have areas they can go and that is it.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
30 Jun 18
Hello @andriaperry well, not sure why they were assign to the jungle or anything but somewhere along the road there was miscommunication.
