>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]
“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]”
Yeah, that sounded like more of a rumor at the time. Remember the amnesty boxes? They were an oddity until they started receiving RPGs, AKs, PKMs, RPKs, etc. Then the whole subject became a, ahem, training opportunity. Seems it was easier to dump confiscated weapons in the amnesty box than catalog, store and dispose of them.