OT: Not-so-precise Swiss army unit mistakenly invades Liechtenstein

[Howard Gibson]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:30:39 -0400
"Scott Elcomb" <psema4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> If armed American soldiers ended up more than a Kilometer into Canada,
> would the story be as funny?
> 
> Yes this is way OT, but an interesting exercise nonetheless, IMO.

Scott,

   I believe there was an incident in which the Italian army invaded Sweden.  It was a NATO exercise.  The airliner was diverted for some reason, the Italians were not told, and they were left wandering around a Swedish airport in full camo until someone figured what was going on.

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