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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
Special Forces tossed several grenades into the room, but the Qaeda men scooped them up and tossed them back. It was a lethal game of hot potato.

There's an easy solution for that. Next round, hold the grenades for a count of five after arming before you fling them into the room.

26 posted on 11/11/2002 3:23:10 PM PST by Dan Day
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To: Dan Day
There's an easy solution for that. Next round, hold the grenades for a count of five after arming before you fling them into the room.

LOL! I don't know if I'd hold it for five!

We were always taught to cook it off for 3-

"one one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand- Grenade!"
and toss it in the bunker, fighting position or room. As a matter of fact, I have never been taught any other way to do it (cooking off the grenade for such obstacles) and was a little surprised the SF guy made any kind of a big deal out of it- maybe it was just the reporter who tripped out on this detail. The SF type actually should've done it that way to start with because a cook-off is SOP for that obstacle.
28 posted on 11/11/2002 4:51:20 PM PST by Prodigal Son
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