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!
Yea, you are right, the kids wanted to use this excuse to have some fun.