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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: ergRTC on September 10, 2003, 02:47:20 PM
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Found it in the woods by my lab. Which is a little scary since my lab is in Washington DC.
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Just curious what model and age, I dont know a thing about it, found it yesterday.
erg
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If it isn't drilled out and hollow, maybe you should call the bomb squad.
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it is hollowed out. It was laying in such a way so I could see that before I touched it.
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You might consider putting a pin in it, or this post might make the Darwin Awards. :)
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oh the fame and glory.
No the real darwin award winner would be throwing it at the white house or bringing it to the airport with me.
"excuse me, could you hold this while I put my bags up?"
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Why not show us a pic of it hollowed out. Hate to see you lose your nuts.
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M67, fragmentation grenade, still in use today. judging by the fact that its painted red it was probly used as a trainer (easier to find a red ball than a green ball). If its not hollowed out seek imediate EODhelp from your local police. Oh and one more thing dont EVER touch unexploded ordinence, thats how you become another statistic.
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Well, I have lived this long, and since I am not a complete idiot, I felt okay about removing it. If I could not have seen the inside of the grenade, trust me, I wouldve let it alone. When you say still in use, when was it introduced?
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Yep that is a practice grenade.... before use we had to put new primers in them the pop is anti climactic but the weight and feel are identical
OTOH during the Gulf war we used to take live ones pop the spoon and see if we could unscrew the primer before it went off <3-5 sec> if ys chickened out ya shoved it in to the grenade sump. BTW the Idea wasnt orignal with us.... just somthing we had heard about Guys doing in the Sixties>
Gunns
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looking at the photo brought to mind a trick we played on our "DI" during Basic, It seems that we had a whole set of dummy grenades painted up in the "real" colors having scavanged a spoon and primer cap we put the primer and spoon in the green body and pulled the pin then we put the grenade in a LAW rocket tube that we had as a training aid and lef it on the table out side the barracs, the DI came around the corner and saw the LAW sitting there seemingly abandoned and "went balistic" snached the tube off the table flinging the grenade out of the tube...... the spoon went Poing....... We paid hard for that <580 pushups and a 5 mile run> but it was worth it..... shows what happens when a SF company hosts the Trainee baracks for the week before basic begins......
Gunns
19th SFG(A) 21st TAACOM 1st ID
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Gunnss you are a wild man. I am suprised you got away with only pushups and miles, the DI must have had a good sense of humor.
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That reminds me. A few years back some kid found a grenade on a river bank where they used to hold live-fire infantry training and the like.
He was seen walking down the street with it and some neighbourhood parents saw him. They called the police. Turns out the grenade was still live.
The bomb squad took it out to the local landfill and detonated it.
That kid was lucky he didnt pull the pin on it. LOL, I dont think if I was a parent I would have thought I would have had to brief my kids on what to do if they found a grenade. :confused:
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Rofl!!! that's just hilarious gunns!
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heh. Not too shabby, Gunns.
About the nastiest thing I was ever involved in was dumping CS powder in the window fan at a Ranger barracks.
The retribution was educational and entertaining. The Rangers all had a good sense of humor, though, and after we helped them clean up we all nursed our wounds over adult beverages at the club.
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well, all I can tell you is that I joined the army in 1987 and it was in use then. I do have a good story about the m67 though. During Operation Just Cause, we set up a perimeter at Rio Hato in Panama. Well, we went out and set up booby traps to the front of our position. We were using grenades cuz we ran outta claymores. So, we changed the fuses on the frag grenades with the smoke grenades because the smoke's fuses were instant no delay. well, the problem came when we moved out the next morning we went and policed up our booby traps. In hurry we put all of our frags together. That ment mixing the booby trap frags with the "normal" delayed fused frags. Not Good! we ended up going down on the beach and blowing up the whole batch with c4, then getting a reissue of frag grenades. Seems the army never has a shortage of grenades.
BTW: Iam glad you could see that it's a trainer, not saying that your a moron or anything but, I 've seen people who have been trained do stupid things before and the said part is they dont only kill themself but usually someone else too. Thats why people like me have to preach about it sometimes.
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From http://www.thisamericanlife.org
My Pen Pal. Sarah York, from Northern Michigan, became General Manuel Noriega's pen pal in 1988. Here she is with the General, greeting crowds of Panamanians on a visit to Panama City when she was 11. They're pictured at right. The building behind them, the Panamanian Defense Forces Headquarters, was later destroyed in "Operation Just Cause," the U.S invasion of Panama, in 1989. Stories of very unusual pen pals, this week. Broadcast in most places the weekend of September 12-14, or available here next week via RealAudio.
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I would say it looks a little like this, If it is Hollowed out on bottom it came with a live Fuse that went Bang when thrown, use them in practice and looks like this . some painted it so when thrown it could be found again cause of the looks of the color it is so they could replace fuse and use it again...
http://www2.freepichosting.com/Images/79275/1.jpg