-Rurik
Wednesday, December 09, 2020
Don’t Put Your Hands Over The Mortar Tube!
Complacency kills. No matter what your MOS or job in any branch of the military a lack of training or not paying attention to what you are doing can have deadly consequences. One video clearly demonstrates just how lucky one soldier to get away with his life.
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Wow. He got off pretty light. Even kept the hand. For now.
ReplyDeleteDuring a rapid fire support mission in VN one of the crew got ahead of himself and tried slide a round down the tube just as the previous was leaving. The round that had been fired wobbled of somewhere unknown; the round that the troopy had tried to load did not go off but landed nearby in the main ammo bunker after taking half the loaders lower jaw and cheek and its fins amputating most of his fingers on both hands. What a bloody day that was.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to sound cruel but that was stupidity at its finest . Darwin eliminates those folks quickly in combat or even practice for combat . I shot at the range almost daily growing up . The cop range ! You flash that gun at a cop and three guys were on your skinny a$$ in a heartbeat . You were on the bottom of that pile promising you would never ever do that again . They did not fook around !
ReplyDeleteanytime I've shot at a ranges where cops were practicing almost always they were the incompetent fools.
DeleteAnd quite arrogant about it generally as well.
65 years ago the boys were all back from the war and it was a different world. They could run 35 mph and cap your ass while doing it . After you kill enough the skin gets tough . And the heart . Scars all over the heart .
DeleteTyrone gunna have a hard time playing B-ball with the other bros now.
ReplyDeleteWell thats why we train, train, train. Sometimes theres just no real place in the army that is safe from some low IQ, dull eyed, mouth breathers.
Well there is one, I kept two duds in one of my CAV Troops, when they should of been outed. We had just gotten a new CO and he wanted to know why these two fine soldiers were not out, Why you ask? I told him someone has to take their mask off to test for ALL CLEAR in a CBRN situation, and that was theirs!!!
Cavguy
Remember Carlos May.
ReplyDeleteGreat white Sox player!!!!
DeleteOw ! In the slomo it looked like he got a couple of dislocated elbows. Flappin' like a chicken.
ReplyDeleteLooks like he slipped. Went to hang and it got away from him.
ReplyDeleteWonder if this soldier's gunnery sergeant made him run circles around his platoon while carrying the mortar over his head?
ReplyDeleteWhen i did cross training in the Marines the mortar guys said when in the hang position your hands are on the round and tube when told to fire slide hands down the tube and cover your ears, he said he had seen newbies not do it that way and destroy hands, that was 40 yrs ago so it is a ongoing problem!!!! grayman
ReplyDeleteBINGO that is the way I was taught in 1975 at FORT POLK LA. you slide your hands down the tube after YOU LET THE ROUND GO AND COVER YOUR EARS. But most people think mortars sound like a fat man spitting watermelon seeds. If I was his supervisor and if the IDIOT still has functional fingers he would practice dropping training rounds down the tube until I got tired.
DeleteMy right ear doesn't hear as well as the left, but I still have my hands after cross training on the 81's in GITMO.
ReplyDeleteSame here 11C20 1975-1978 Mechanized Infantry Fort Carson Colorado
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