Today at Camp Blanding’s BWMQT class we went out to the range for the student’s favorite day … Hand Grenades.
In addition to getting some really good training earlier in the day throwing little “popper” simulation grenades on a course that measured various skills; each student also got to throw 3 or 4 live hand grenades. Here’s a quick video of one of the pits “in action” …
This is the first class in a while that’s gotten to use the real live grenades, as we had a couple of “duds” a few months back … resulting in everybody having to sit around for a couple of hours waiting for EOD to come clear the range.
This current batch was deemed to be usable. However, I have to admit to still being slightly surprised that we got through it, as these grenades are older than me … they were manufactured in 1968.
Til next time …
