US Army Raids Wrong Boston Hotel Room

[Chance]

From CNN.com:

Members of the FBI and the US Army Special Operations Command who were conducting a training exercise in downtown Boston raided the wrong hotel room and detained the person inside before realizing their mistake, the FBI said in a statement to CNN.

The FBI said its Boston division was helping the military with a training exercise around 10 p.m. Tuesday “to simulate a situation their personnel might encounter in a deployed environment.”

“Based on inaccurate information, they were mistakenly sent to the wrong room and detained an individual, not the intended role player,” the FBI said.

“First and foremost, we’d like to extend our deepest apologies to the individual who was affected by the training exercise,” USASOC Lt. Col. Mike Burns told CNN.

The exercise was meant to “enhance soldiers’ skills to operate in realistic and unfamiliar environments,” Burns said.

No one was injured, the FBI said.

Definitely one of those, "This is going to take a *long* time to explain..." type of situations.

[Suvorov]

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Definitely one of those, "This is going to take a *long* time to explain..." type of situations.

The "detained" person was a Delta Air Lines pilot on rest. No doubt ended with flights being delayed or cancelled. I just hope that the poor guy was in a "decent" condition when the door came down.

[PNWTO]

Delta just can’t catch a break.

“Thanks to a paper-pushing junior SA and a hungover SNCO who can’t remember floor numbers we’ll be canceling your Easter trip.”

[wvincent]

When you don't know the "safe word".......

[Stephanie B]

Somebody needs to tell the disbursing officer to warm up the office checkbook.

If the Deltoid had been a Federal Flight Deck Officer, that might have ended very badly.

[Coyotesfan97]

General no one was more surprised than me etc

[Coyotesfan97]

Somebody needs to tell the disbursing officer to warm up the office checkbook.

Sometimes we’d say just write the check and add some zeros. Some agencies have the Lieutenant in charge of the shift authorized to cut a check on the spot up to $5,000 IIRC along with a signature on a liability waiver form. Accidental dog bite sorry here’s a check I just need you to sign this form. It saves a lot of money sometimes.

[TGS]

Sometimes we’d say just write the check and add some zeros. Some agencies have the Lieutenant in charge of the shift authorized to cut a check on the spot up to $5,000 IIRC along with a signature on a liability waiver form. Accidental dog bite sorry here’s a check I just need you to sign this form. It saves a lot of money sometimes.

ahem *clears throat* which agencies?

Staccatos are expensive, just sayin'.

[Coyotesfan97]

LASD for sure. The K9 trainer I knew from there told us about it. There other agencies in Southern California that do. I don’t know of any AZ agencies that do it. The Lieutenants we mentioned it too thought it was a good idea.

ETA I’d take 5K for some punctures. LOL

[whomever]

I saw this a couple of days ago. The mind boggles.

You would think the protocol would involve something like an inverse safe word, i.e. after you barge into the room, the role-player would say 'kumquat green' or something, and if he didn't you'd realize something was really, really wrong. I don't see that a safety check like that would overly impact the realism.

Someone needs a new career.

I'm not sure how quiet the 45 minutes in the shower was, but if it was audible outside the room there is a potential for things going really south. All things considered, I wonder if the additional realism of doing this in an actual hotel is worth the risk of things going wrong.