US Marine Corps misses target, finds and bombs Nemo

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It's beginning to look like General Ripper exceeded his authority

A mishandled exercise is being blamed for four bombs – two inert, and two explosive but unarmed – being ditched On Australia's World-Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef.

Two American Harrier fighter-bombers lifted off from the USS Bonhomme Richard as part of Exercise Talisman Sabre, carrying 500-pound bombs. Their target was a practise range on Townshend Island, north of Rockhampton.
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The bombs – two inert BDU 45 practise bombs, and two unarmed high-explosive GBU 12s laser-guided bombs – are now lying in a channel described as 50-60 metres deep and “not a hazard”, while the US Navy works out how to recover them without also messing up the piscatorial paradise that is the Great Barrier Reef.

The bombs' location is described as being around 16 nautical miles south of Bell Cay in the Great Barrier Reef. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority says it currently deems the bombs as "low risk".

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/21/us_marine_corps_bombs_australia/

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1. Is this what constitutes precision delivery?

I'm beginning to understand why there are so many "casualties" from our bombs and missiles in other countries.

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2. This is what comes of not speaking up loudly enough when they bombed the Moon

It's open season on any and all Natural Wonders, now...