> Nonetheless, the official said the incident shows that the Air Force and the Army have a serious training problem that needs to be corrected. "We need to know how our equipment works; when the battery is changed, it defaults to his own location," the official said. "We've got to make sure out people understand this."
I hope that's not the mentality of the military today, that special forces operators in the field need to remember UI/UX details of the software they use...rather than the software developer adding in relatively simple safeguards, such as confirmation boxes.
It's also a lesson in how software development and engineering can go awry without close feedback from the audience. There are on-the-field realities -- such as the battery going low -- that even if the developers are aware of, they can't easily predict how the intended user will react in those scenarios...to tragic results, in this case.