Yeah, the clearing barrel. I distinctly remember a ‘squared away’ officer grumbling while going over to use it after coming off a convoy. Then a loud bang. Woopsie.
Clearing barrels are a good thing!
You got that right!
I also remember an incident when the soldier swore up and down he had checked the chamber -— BOOM.
Uh-huh.
The thing is sometimes no matter how hard one tries, mistakes are made. Especially when it’s dark, one is tired and cold as hell, etc.
We had several areas where everybody had to fire into the barrel before entering.
>Yeah, the clearing barrel. I distinctly remember a ‘squared away’ officer grumbling while going over to use it after coming off a convoy. Then a loud bang. Woopsie.
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>Clearing barrels are a good thing!
F—ed up thing is that any discharge in a clearing-barrel [at least when I was in Iraq] was grounds for non-judicial punishment.
That’s right, the clearing barrels are for DISPLAY PURPOSES ONLY! [/semi-sarc]