Heads have to roll for this

Who had the bright idea of using live rounds in an exercise? The Army don't even do that except with special units under extemely strict control. I have never been happy with the way they play and shoot each other with Tasers. One day, one of them will have the Taser spark at the wrong moment during the cardiac firing cycle, combined with a previously unknown dodgy ticker and end up in cardiac arrest.

Two electrodes only have to be in the correct axis of the myocardium to cause an arrest.

OK, I accept that accidents may happen in real life situations where firearms are deployed but this must never happen on an exercise.

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