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To: Squantos

Ping.


8 posted on 02/09/2018 4:44:17 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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Worst I ever had to render safe was a 4 Deuce Mortar round an old Army troop found while excavating a area on a ranch ...... He decided to fill the hole back in for safety till we got there to safe it ..... 8 feet of cold frozen muddy fill on the uxo.

Myself and my P2 dug carefully for about two miserable cold wet muddy hours till we found an old windmill sucker pump bullet weight that had leather washers this “army” 4.2 Mortarman had positively identified ...... as a 4 deuce with charge bags still on it ...... we were less than pleased.

About 6 months later he called us again an drew up the device on a piece of paper. Back in WWII the base was a bombardier / navigator school where most of the old M117’s were filled with concrete for training purposes . They would drop a few dozen concrete filled and 2 live ones at the end of training.

We checked out a 45 pound pentolite shape charge and blew his concrete training bomb all to hell as we were done digging up his scrap metal ...... note. Cattle on a ranch love to gather around trucks that they may be carrying feed .

Pretty sure the guy was chasing cows for a month . Never bothered calling again.


16 posted on 02/09/2018 9:54:39 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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