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Old 02-28-2019, 03:13 AM
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Originally Posted by jester View Post
That is something else to consider. I recall a freind who was EOD said alot of their calls for "dud" grenades turned out to be grenades that were thrown without either the pin being pulled, or the safety being removed. Often, tney would just walk up without to much caution, look down, pick it up and replace the pin and hand it back as good as new.

But, I recall most of our grenade training and when we were issued them in the sand many people were afraid to have them, we were allowed no more than two, however, if you wanted one to spare, all you had to do was ask and someone who was afraid of having one handed one over. And then of course our 1st Sgt and Company commander did not want to even issue them, then when they did they wanted us to keep them in the cardboard cartons, it seems they were afraid of being fragged.
I remember the first time I had to do this, we got called for dud grenades, when we showed up the unit was standing around, so we asked if they pulled the pin, they said they had and showed us the pin, and safety clip. So then asked what happened, they threw the grenade and nothing happened so they threw a second one to try and get them both to go. We did our long range recon and took a look at them, then walked down range and picked them up. Both of them had enough 100 mph tape to fix a tank on them. So we asked if they wanted to try again or have us dispose of them, they wanted to try again so we gave them back to the Force Recon Gunnery Sergeant and left, we did not get called back so they were able to solve that problem.
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