Email Dooms Iraq Convoy
Military.com has a sobering article outlining how an Army after-action report they obtained discusses how an unarmored, undermanned convoy of fuel trucks was erroneously sent directly into fierce fighting that left nine Americans lay dead, 17 were seriously wounded and two missing in action, one of whom still is.
The report makes clear that the incident was a result of a misdirected email.
Only minutes before it was set to depart, the convoy’s route to the airport was changed; code named Alternate Supply Route “Sword,” it was to take them to the airport’s north gate. Then, just before the doomed line of vehicles pulled through the gate to leave, an e-mail intended to halt the convoy was sent to the wrong address.
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