Wrong Target

A friend of mine got this (see below) in an email today from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication...

"And speaking of journalist sources... a quick story: Several years ago, my brother was involved in an international military incident when he was flying his F-18 over Kuwait and was given coordinates for his target and told to fire. The coordinates he was given were the tower, rather than the target. Bad mistake. Within a week or two, the USS Greenville (nuke sub) was involved in the Ehime Maru mess when the sub hit the Japanese fishing boat off the coast of Hawaii.

Divers inspect the wreckage of Ehime Maru off Oahu, November 5, 2001.

The captain of the sub was my high school sweetheart. Somebody put that together and posted it on our high school forum (the high school was for military families stationed in Italy, so a very tiny community...). A NYTimes reporter in NYC actually found the message board and called me in G'ville to get the "story"... so sometimes even the "not so lazy" journalists find interesting sources for twists to existing stories. Something to think about."
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Diagram of Greeneville's control room shows the locations of the 32 people in the room at the time of the emergency ballast blow maneuver. The darker marks represent the locations of the DV civilians.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Looks like "War Games" to me...