i'm in the army and there are so many stupid brain dead people it 's un real.
we went to the grenade range on thursday to throw grenades
we practise throwing drill grenades before hand.
u have to take out the pin them throw simple right.
a guy in the army 8 years went down to throw his two grenades
and just throw it with the pin in . what !
we actually practise this over , over and over again.
take out pin throw
stupid proof , u'd think so
he's going overseas in may.
i'm going over to
i'm thinking do i really want to go.
2007-01-26 23:11:53 · 11 answers · asked by johnc 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Unreal! At least it might make a very peaceful war. Just throw waterbombs at each other instead lol
2007-01-26 23:14:42 · answer #1 · answered by Tabbie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the navy, we were chasing a friendly submarine in a mock-up. The signals were;- 1 grenade over the side, we have found you; 2 grenades, we are closing in on you; 3 grenades, we are attacking.
The gunner stood on the bridge. Threw one grenade over the side of the ship to signal that we had found the sub.
When he went to execute the next signal - the approach - he pulled the pin from the
grenade, but as he leant over the side of the bridge and went to throw the grenade into the sea, it dropped down the front of his shirt!
The panic reaction of the Officer of the Watch was - "Get off the bridge"......
(Luckily, the grenade handle was stuck against his chest, stopping the grenade going off. And after about a week, he stopped shaking!)
2007-01-26 23:48:47 · answer #2 · answered by Bunts 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Things happen. I remember doing bayonet practise in c1957 and the guy's bayonet next to me flew off and passed my nose with only a fraction of an inch to spare. I think the 'F'word was popular that day. I'm not talking about the short spiky bayonet of today's armies but the 18 inches long WW-One style of bayonet still in use in certain 'backward' Brit Army regiments at the time above.
Practically an effin sword.
2007-01-27 02:31:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you throw a grenade with the pin in then are you not just giving the enemy a free grenade to use?
2007-01-26 23:24:59 · answer #4 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh yes, as a chaplain visiting the F.O.B. at Bessbrook in Northern Ireland I saved the life of a young jock squady who started forward towards a helicoper as it had just landed. If I hadn't have grabbed him and stopped him (you couldn't hear anything with the aircraft noise) he would have been decapitated by the blades of the Wessex which were angled in just the direction he was walking. If the accident had happened the army might have lost only 50 IQ points with his death - but we would have all got very messy indeed.
2007-01-26 23:18:50 · answer #5 · answered by stgoodric 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have done many stuopid things.
In the military the best I ever saw was when an officer (!) lit a molotov cocktail, but because he had spilled some fuel on his hand that began to burn. He transferred the bottle to his other hand and began to blow on the flames!
The Sgt yeeled out "Throw the b...thing, ....SIR"
He did...the targhet was a disused tank about 10 yards away....he missed!!
2007-01-26 23:19:07 · answer #6 · answered by alan h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the summer of '93, We had just come in port after a couple weeks at sea in the North Arabian Gulf doing 5 knot circles off the Al Faw Peninsula. We stood Air Guard for USS Chancellorville as she fired Tomahawks at the Iraqi Intel center in Baghdad. (For the Car bomb attempt on Bush Sr.) All other US ships went south and into port as we stood up north and dared Iraq to hit us back. After a week of this We went south into Dubai, U.A.E.
A shipmate and I were out walking from one hotel pub to another in Dubai. We passed this fancy palace like place with a nice drive up past a gate. Standing in front were these Arab guys who were staring at us as if they wanted to kill us. They were mad and very pissed off. My buddy flipped them the bird (You know, Keeping up foreign relations). It was then we noted the flag. We were standing right outside the Iraqi consulate for the U.A.E.
We headed back to the Ship and reported the incident to the OOD. After that incident, that part of town was put off-limits for liberty call.
2007-01-27 01:02:16 · answer #7 · answered by CG-23 Sailor 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i quit smoking last january and was really hard. i noticed the other day that in my cupboard i had noticed 200 fags.
i didnt know where they came from but then i noticed whilst doing the weekly shop at asda last night i went to buy fags from the *** stall and then i thought that in a sort of habbit ive been buying them.
i dont even smoke and am lumbered with 200 fags. so ive been selling them to neighbours,lol
2007-01-26 23:19:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well at least he didn't just throw the pin!! Send him in first...problem solved!
2007-01-26 23:14:53 · answer #9 · answered by glenn c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't you have to go though as part of your contract?
2007-01-26 23:15:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋