My first impression as well, but that may be due to the fact that I recall this:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9501E1D81431F93BA3575BC0A9659C8B63


>>>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,373502,00.html
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>>>Boy, that's the closest they've come to victory in over a century!
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>>Really bizarre. This is an elite unit and number of things that would have had to go wrong for live rounds to even be available and for an experienced soldier to load them ...
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>>Pretty tragic. Especially for the guy pulling the trigger (and, obviously, the recipients of the live fire ) if those rounds were some how improperly color-coded.
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>My immediate suspicion was something that was mentioned in the article, that someone may have done it on purpose. Maybe I've been reading too many thrillers.