Posted on 03/03/2011 8:46:14 PM PST by smokingfrog
Lots of funny comments here, but you make a good point. If it was a live grenade, the explosive could have become unstable over time. I’m thinking the best thing would be to put the grenade in a large bucket of water and then call the police to pick it up.
Yeah they could have done that, but then the EODs wouldn't have gotten their "training" and used up the old stock of C4. ;-)
Once while running the Huey Gunships, one of the 2.75" rockets jammed in the pod... the higher ups refused to let us pull the rocket and instead called the EODs...
...and they did exactly what we knew they would, which was to load the remaining tubes with about 10 lbs of C4 and blow about a 20 ft crater in the ground while vaporizing our rocket pod!
“Quite a few years ago (late eighties) a SEAL was tossing a grenade, the fuse had been changed out for instantaneous detonation”
Why would an instantaneous detonation fuse be made to fit a hand grenade?
For use as a booby-trap, removing the 4-5 sec delay, one of the "old ways" was to insert smoke grenade fuses which had an almost instantaneous firing train... set up a trip line, pull the pin, boom.
Haven't kept track of the newer devices as they have gotten smaller, so I don't know if they can have or even accept different types of fuses.
Yea, you are right, the kids wanted to use this excuse to have some fun.
I'm willing to bet that they 'escorted' him back and searched the home it came from before 'taking him at his word'. Not that that was a bad idea, though.
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