Reply With QuoteDamn, atleast he's there to remember itOriginally Posted by LineDoggie
Also considerations of your environment. I was trained to back hand frags into doorways in MOUT. a Buddy during Panama did same and realized too late the wall he was against was corrogated tin. He carries many tiny pieces in his back and legs as a momento of his Oh **** Moment.
Damn, atleast he's there to remember it
I was trained to bounce a frag off of the floor or a wall during MOUT, so the enemy wouldn't have time to pick it up and give it back. Also, never to throw a frag UP a stairwell.
A close friend of mine was killed in a rare accident. His platoon trained with an instructor to throw fragmentation grenades. Few soldiers threw the grenade and everything was OK. When it came to my friend, his grenade did not explose. It was clear it was defectueuse!
The instructor ordered him to throw a 2nd one in order to complete the exercise. The 2nd grenade had a different technical failure: it exploded with an extremely short delay (or with no delay at all) killing both my friend and the instructor.
The fatal professional mistake of the instructor was to continue the trainning after the failure of the 1st grenade: both grenades originated from the same case; therefore, same serial which appeared to be deffectueuse with quality control problems!
This story is 35 years old but I think the lesson is still relevant (not only for hand grenades but for all kinds of devices).
The safey of grenades can probably still be improved.
The IDF introduced this year a new bullet-resistant grenade. (There were cases of grenades triggered inside soldiers' vest when hit by a bullet.)
http://www.english.moqawama.org/essa...=19383&cid=301
Last edited by Camera; 06-14-2012 at 08:18 PM. Reason: english
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