If memory serves me correctly, thermite grenades were supposed to be issued to the squadron commo rooms with the intent to destroy any equipment that could not be evacuated.
The various S-1/S-2/S-3/S-4 and troop headquarters would get a burn device that would be placed inside a 55-gallon barrel which would then be stuffed with essential papers and ignited.
Never did find out what the correct designation was, but when you pulled the tab, it would ignite and burn for 2-3 minutes at so many hundreds of degrees and destroy any papers as well as the garbage can.
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The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.
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