Yeah, that one thing I remember the Drill Sergeants drilling into us during basic and AIT, without coming out saying it. Just from my Basic/AIT company out of us who were Regular Army, many went strait from Fort Benning to Korea directly. Several more were heading to Germany, at the time. Both the inter-border and DMZ have been home of several incidents that largely get unreported.
There are two reasons:
1. Each side is testing the other.
2. No one really wants a shooting war.
Many of these incidents are written up as nerves. As for the dogfights...It not so much of a dogfight, but pilots being order to fly into the others territory to test their reaction. Many of the times, they were only suppose to get close enough to scare the shit out of the offending pilot, but when you sent up aircraft loaded for bear shit happens.
Not saying that none of the unreported incidents were unintentional, but the thing is if you are being the one shot down or taking fire, you aren't going to ask if it was or wasn't, in your mind it was. It was a game that was played for years, and in some of the unfriendly borders of the world, it is still played on the daily basis...
|