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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
And that's why I tried to steer well clear of American soliders.....
Anyone got caught even THINKING about doing anything as stupid as throwing or standing on detonators would find themselves laying on their backs with the air knocked out of their lungs and two seconds later be up on a charge. |
&To follow up on that joke I had an american FIST team with me on an inspection of Serb caches at an VRS base outside Derventa -the place was stacked with AT mines in crates ,shells,boxes of rifle grenades etc etc
by the door a dud M72 type - cannot remember the Yugoslav nomenclature - it was opened and extended and this US sgt picked it up and rattled it ,turning it up and down etc to "check it out "- there were atleast 10 tons of TNT app . 3 feet and 1/2 inch of plywood away.I told him to put it down INSTANTLY - but it didnt register,I then told his 2nd LT that the piezo electrical element that ignites the charge in the rpg is among the most unstable ignition dvices known as soon as the safety is removed -and that we were in a stacked explosives warehouse .(The Serbs were chattering nervously ,shaking their hands warningly etc ,backing up and what not -they would have had to back up for a full 5 minutes to survive).
He told me not to worry .The sgt was "an expert ".
I told them both to get the F*** out .(both shaking their heads at my unreasonability )
I mean -it really isnt the amount of explosives rather than who is handling them ...
Seriously - there are some like this in severy army ,but logically enough ,their time is often limited
