This reminds me of the last shot of the Civil War. A WWII soldier at Fort Macon in NC thought it would be a good idea to use an old cannonball as an andiron. It exploded, but he wasn’t killed.
https://www.historynet.com/last-shot-of-the-civil-war/
Saturday morning Looney Tunes in real life.
Not so elite
I served with idiots who would have done the same.
EVERY military has them. Just sayin’.
There is more to this story, an rpg doesn’t catch fire and explode immediately
I don’t buy the story timeline.
More likely they were f’n around with an rpg and it discharged.
More a case of stupid is as stupid does(vodka)
Will Stewart has left a long list of childish propaganda on the Forum. Congratulations on adding yet another piece.
This isn’t propaganda. DailyMail had an embedded journalist in the Russian army filming the entire episode!
vodka for lunch
I’m adding that to my customary saying...
“Alcohol and weapons AND COOKFIRES don’t mix.”
Shrapnel. It's what's for dinner.
I guess Russia never had many western TV shows.
Roy Rogers nods
Slightly off topic:
I was reading the diary of a WWII US officer who talked about a vet who contacted him years after the war, to follow up on a decoration he had been promised and didn't receive. The officer who promised him the medal had been killed in an accident.
During a behind the lines event at a US field kitchen, someone dropped a grenade (safety had been forgotten and left off) in a crowded kitchen area. About 18 guys died immediately and many others were injured badly...including the guy who asked about the promise of a medal. He lost vision in one eye and I think he lost a leg, along with other injuries.
The officer who got the post war request to research the medal story proceeded to check things out.
The vet HAD been injured at the WWII field kitchen accident. BUT it turns out HE was the GI who made the ‘mistake’ with his grenade...and caused the deaths of so many, including the officer who had promised the medal.
Aren't people something?
If it is not on YouTube it did not happen.
Vladivostok, looong way from home just to die from assgrabbery...