Coast Guard Backs Off Live Fire Exercises

I don’t know what’s more frightening about this story: Great Lakes live fire a no-go:

Bowing to pressure from a wide-ranging group of critics, the U.S. Coast Guard on Monday backed off from plans to permanently conduct live fire exercises on the Great Lakes.

  • The Coast Guard holds live fire exercises and thought it would be fun to do so on waters heavily trafficked by civilians.
  • The Army hasn’t publicly said it would not hold live fire exercises in American cities.

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