Thanks for the correction. I remember the kick the Marines got out of firing an M-79 round into the ground beside my foot.
Damn funny. I can still hear myself laughing, maybe not. I didn’t care what the Marines told us at Camp Pendleton about the round rotating to arm itself. I got on my gunboat and left, knowing that if I got killed it would be by a Vietnamese, of course the boat crew was Vietnamese so it was a sure thing. I could get it coming or going.
Yeah, those Marines do have a sense of humor don’t they?
Didn’t realize you’d served. Hope my explanation of fuzes didn’t offend.
This whole thing on fuzes reminds me of my days back at Benning. During training on the LAW, they told us that the fuze wouldn’t arm until 10 meters (more or less, I’m getting old). That evening on NBC, there was a reporter claiming fraud on the part of defense contractors building the LAW. The dufus claimed that the LAW should kill any tank to 300 meters and he’d seen LAWS bouncing harmlessly off tanks at less than 5 yards. Just my first step to being a sceptic on anything military on TV.