Memories and future plans for our military members

[vaskidmark]

Whatever you do, do not do this at home, or abroad.  You have been warned.  Like that will do any good.

stay safe.

http://rhinoden.rangerup.com/the-dumbass-chronicles-the-most-dangerous-range-ever/

So there I was enjoying a two-martini lunch when the Battalion XO, Major Good Ideafairy, walks into my office and says, “Lieutenant…I want you to run a joint end-of-year weapons range with the Koreans next month.” Anyone else think this is how those “do’s and don’ts of range safety” videos start off?
It’s an annual thing – Army units have to expend all remaining ammunition in their accounts by September 30th

[wmenorr67]

Hey I may have been on that range, or on just like it once or twice in my career.

[Jamisjockey]

Now that right there is funny...not only because it's funny, but because I've known a few Lt Dumbasses and a few Major Goodideafairies in my life....

[Phantom Warrior]

The story on that site about the guy getting mailed a giant dildo at Ranger School is hilarious.

[dogmush]

That is pretty good.

They do get really wound up about daisy-chaining claymores. Why is that?

[kgbsquirrel]

The story on that site about the guy getting mailed a giant dildo at Ranger School is hilarious.

 

"Bring me the Keeper of the Dick!"

[wmenorr67]

Read "The Bottle Incident."

[Scout26]

That is pretty good.

They do get really wound up about daisy-chaining claymores. Why is that?

Because if you don't know what you're doing you could blow up yourself or "make you generally unpopular with the remainder of your platoon". 

Also it is possible that not all of them will detonate.  You can instead launch one or more of them to parts unknown.  Unexploded ordnance scattered on ranges is highly frowned upon. 

Aslo, I'm assuming from the story that they did not have enough detonators.  You can reuse the clackers and most of the wire.

[41magsnub]

Yeah, I'd like to know exactly how he daisy chained them.  Were they all right next to each other making it likely to cause all kinds of UXO fun, or were they spread out in line like you would do in an ambush? 

I recall one incident in AIT where we had a big chunk of C4 that instead of going off was blown clear.  I don't recall exactly what we were doing to have a big mass of C4.  To set it off we used the remaining 20 or so blasting caps wired together all jammed into this one about 3/4 of a block of C4.  It did go off that time.   

[Angel Eyes]

The sheer volume of the ammo we had to shoot was staggering. The breakdown went something like this:

15,000 rounds of 5.56 ball ammo for the M-16
10,000 rounds of 9mm ammo for the pistol
7,000 rounds of 7.62mm for the M60 machine gun
2,000 rounds of 40mm grenades for the M203 grenade launcher
8 hand grenades
15 claymore mines
1 AT-4 rocket

Is it wrong that I was wondering whether all that would fit in my garage?

[dogmush]

Because if you don't know what you're doing you could blow up yourself or "make you generally unpopular with the remainder of your platoon". 

Also it is possible that not all of them will detonate.  You can instead launch one or more of them to parts unknown.  Unexploded ordnance scattered on ranges is highly frowned upon. 

Aslo, I'm assuming from the story that they did not have enough detonators.  You can reuse the clackers and most of the wire.

That was actually rhetorical on my part.  My whole squad actually got the why explained to us in very small words by our SGM back in the day after an awesome range experience that started with my squad leader looking at me and saying "*expletive deleted*ck this, this is taking too long, grab the mines and det cord and follow me, I'm going to show you how we actually use these things!" and ended with an, as they say, "Earth-Shattering Kaboom".

Your points were all addressed in the subsequent remedial training.

[Devonai]

Reminds me of something Joseph Heller might have written.

[wmenorr67]

Is it wrong that I was wondering whether all that would fit in my garage?

No, if you didn't think that and are on this board I would think something was wrong with you.