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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
I was on the first Assault Pioneer course (1993) after Australia stopped teaching flame warfare (predominantly with the M2 but other expedients such as fougasse too). I at least got to do all the theory, etc but the hands on practical never happened. #Absolutelygutted. 
A mate in the same platoon had been able to play with M2's a couple of years before and he wasn't even on a proper qualification course. I believe although instruction had ceased, the M2's themselves were put into storage for possible latter use "just in case". 27 years later I wonder if they're still there and even if they'd still be serviceable without a major overhaul. |
I can not say about Australia, but for the US Army they were still in the inventory as of 2004, with two MOS's listed as being able to draw them Combat Engineer and NBC, found this out when I was the NBC NCO for a Combat Engineer unit in Iraq and told my supply sergeant to order us one to clear brush with.