The Chinese grenade brings back a horrible memory of basic training in 1962 on the grenade range at Ft. Gordon, GA. A recruit froze with the grenade in hand above his head and the pin pulled, the instructor died from head wounds and the trainee lost most his right arm but lived to have horrible nightmares while in the hospital there. There were two cycles at Gordon in the fall of 1962 this one and the group ahead of me in which a dummy decided to stand up and run on the infiltration course and was cut down with a 30 cal. machine gun round, he thought they were using blanks and tracers.
Do ya think the trainee "filled" his pants?
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ReplyDeleteThe Chinese grenade brings back a horrible memory of basic training in 1962 on the grenade range at Ft. Gordon, GA. A recruit froze with the grenade in hand above his head and the pin pulled, the instructor died from head wounds and the trainee lost most his right arm but lived to have horrible nightmares while in the hospital there. There were two cycles at Gordon in the fall of 1962 this one and the group ahead of me in which a dummy decided to stand up and run on the infiltration course and was cut down with a 30 cal. machine gun round, he thought they were using blanks and tracers.
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