Posted on 12/20/2014 5:06:12 PM PST by w1n1
Here are some rules that you should follow when planting a roadside bomb.
Rule 1. After putting the bomb in the hole, do not, repeat, do not tamp the ground too much.
Rule 2. Do not forget rule 1 FFS! This video of thermal image was taken from an AC-130 Gunship from about a mile away. No rounds were fired from the aircraft, some Islamic Jihadists were trying to bury a 155mm artillery round, they must have lost the instruction manual, or it was in English.
See the video here.
I had to laugh out loud.
They blowed up real good.
The WSJ guy got it wrong. I went to the youtube video, and it wasn’t jihadis planting a bomb, it was a group of Afghani volunteers trying to dismantle an IED ahead of the troops when it went off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZpG3lZJywk
Poor guys never knew what hit them :(
Why do they always sit like they are taking a dump? Seems like they’d strain something like that.
GMTA. Beat me by that much!
They blowed up real good!
The guy who walks up at the end. “Hey, what’s happeninBOOM!” Bad timing for him...
I retract my earlier post. That is tragic.
Yeah, It’s always a good idea to dismantle a bomb by jumping up and down on it.
That doesn't make any sense - no one dismantles an IED by repeatedly tamping it down from all sides. They were trying to set it and hide it, not dismantle it.
ahahaha WONDERFUL images...
“That doesn’t make any sense - no one dismantles an IED by repeatedly tamping it down from all sides.”
The audio on the video refers to them as “volunteers” and seems to go along with them being good guys. But as one guy on the video said, “Dude, I saw that coming a mile away.”
Is it appropriate to laugh out loud, because I really want to.
If that is the case, this is not funny.
Looks to me like the guy allegedly “tamping it down” is actually using some sort of small tool to chip away the dirt or rocks from around it. Then it looks like he’s trying to pry the thing up. Also, thought I heard the guy in the audio saying something about a medivac...not that there was anything left to medivac.
During my Air Force days, I met an EOD tech who had helped clear some of Saddam’s minefields after the first Gulf War. The Americans were outfitted with the latest, state-of-the-art gear protective gear and remote sensing systems.
The sector next to them was assigned to an Egyptian EOD team. Their techs wore standard Army uniforms with goggles and helmets. Their equipment consisted of a long, sharp stick and a hand shovel, like you’d use in your garden.
One day the NCOIC of the U.S. detachment had a conversation with the officer in charge of the Egyptian team. Trying to be polite, the American commended the bravery of the Egyptians, venturing into a minefield with nothing more than a sticks, a shovel and their wits.
The Egyptian officer shrugged it off...”plenty more where they came from,” he said.
Actually there’s more strain involved on the body in using the toilet seat.
I did laugh out loud. LOL
:)
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