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Faulty GPS in Kuhndu Friendly-Fire Incident
Josh, Congressman Tom Landis, Donna, Congressman Segal, and Congressman Simmel discuss a deadly friendly-fire mistake during live-fire training in Kuhndu. They name a GPS error as the key factor that caused artillery to target their own platoon. No physical device appears; characters reference it verbally as the technical malfunction that drew fire onto U.S. troops, heightening the crisis interrupting Roosevelt Room negotiations.
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Purpose
Provides positioning data for targeting during live-fire training, but malfunctions and directs fire onto friendly platoon.
Significance
Triggers urgent West Wing crisis response; surfaces amid bipartisan deal talks, forcing split focus from political backlash to military damage control.
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