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Propaganda anyone? Don't think that song made the "Hit Parade"?
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The kid should have been shown how to throw it BEFORE being given a live one. I know we threw dummies before we got close to a live one. Also I remember remember being show the correct way to open the packing container so we could confirm the pin was intact before removing the grenade.
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We were shown the correct way to throw a grenade and as well as all the things not to do. Unfortunately, life has taught me some people don't retain instructions very well and when you stress them some of them will go completely brainless. Some people get overly stressed when they are standing there holding a grenade with the pin out knowing it is a hunk of high explosives wrapped in shrapnel and all they can think of is "GET RID of IT" LOL
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Something else that amazes me is those same people will walk between of a car, a forklift or a truck and a building or other structure and all that is between them and being crushed is a brake line, a clutch linkage a foot slipping and never think twice. Those are no less likely fail than the fuse mechanism in a grenade. Most grenades don't have 100,000 miles and a couple dents and been worked on by who know who either.
All you really had to do was hold the spoon tight and then get it over the berm and you would be fine. If Ol Petroca, the platoon klutz didn't blow himself up, I figured I would be fine. Besides I was pretty sure that nervous acting trainer wanted to go home at the end of the day.
Which brings me to the question. Just how bad do you have to screw up what to end up with that job anyway?? That can't be considered a choice billet.
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Never was shelled by their Artillery........Lots a 122 mm rockets! But no artillery.
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The 122 makes a BIG explosion. Charlie liked to toss in a few on our flight line while we did out morning pre-flight inspections. I took this picture after the fire was put out. The damage was actually done by a mortar barrage.
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At Da Nang it was hard for Charlie to hit the fixed wing Marine side of the base. Freedom Hill made it hard for them to get the proper angle. They could do it but took some doing. Charlie could hit the Air Force at Gunfighter Village much easier. Also the Marine helos at Marble Mountain got their fair share.
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Seems they liked to throw a few our way. They stopped using mortars when the Army moved out to Ky Ha. We just got the rockets. They launched from the nearby mountains. The planes were the hot pad planes and the rocket didn't explode. It was about 50 feet from the hangar.
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One landed in a grassy field in our Company area. It mowed the grass right down to the ground in a very large diameter circle. Nothing in the circle was untouched, everything was shredded.
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More Booby Traps........Had not thought of this one, sneaky folks those VC!
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That's funny. I wonder what they put in that 4 leaf clover.
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Have seen the c-rat cans used. Also have seen the used law tube used when someone forgot to destroy it after use.
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Driver seat in 113/577. Driver seat had spring, bench seats in rear did not, sit on frag vest. 9061A44A-CECA-43F4-B903-89D2FB87AFB3.jpg
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Banned SCAMMER !!! < SCAMMER < SCAMMER < SCAMMER < SCAMMER < SCAMMER < SCAMMER < SCAMMER
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Did you have one? We had them, but did not really use them. By the time the "In-Coming" siren went off, the rocket attack was over. We started calling it the "All Clear" siren.
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