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To: gundog

Back in 68 I was in ITR at Camp Pendleton, a dumbass in our platoon picked up a dud M-79 round off our live fire range.

Blew off his right arm, half his head and a huge portion of his upper torso.

Just lucky for the rest of us we were keeping a 10 meter interval, first time I ever saw a person blown up.


35 posted on 01/15/2020 2:47:51 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: 5th MEB; Chode

Yikes !!! One of those You keep this in the DO NOT TRY File.

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42 posted on 01/15/2020 6:05:59 PM PST by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: 5th MEB; All
M-79 rounds are some of the worst. They are small, so the fuses don't have much room for safeties.

Lots of duds with M-79s, and lots of them go off with a little jostling.

They are also meant to produce lots of casualties, so they are deadly for their size.

44 posted on 01/15/2020 6:15:16 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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