For those who remember Graf...
One evening, a guard at a motor pool called into the sergeant and reported an explosion within the motor pool. Sergeant grabbed me (young buck private) to drive the jeep and we headed to to the motor pool to investigate.
Inside the pool were three burning 5-ton trucks and a rather large crater as well as fragments later determined to be from a 155mm round.
The firing ranges that were in use that night all pointed away from main post, soooooooo...
The investigation came up with three possibilities...
1) A defective 155mm round was left on one of the trucks and detonated. Considering that this type of round is never transported with the fuse in place. Doubtful.
2) A freak gust of wind knocked a round off its trajectory. 180 degrees off its trajectory? Doubtful.
3) That a gun crew misread coordinates and that Range Safety had failed to notice that a gun was pointing in the wrong direction, and also ignored the muzzle flash going in the wrong direction...oh come on!?!
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