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Telsa Cola posted:At least in this one the trainee looks like they know they hosed up and i think maybe even shoves the trainer in first. You're going to be disqualified from the military for poor vision. 
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https://youtu.be/lLYtit7vFAg Did someone say grenade pranks?
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Classic screamer prank. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Wfluzzvac
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Malachite_Dragon posted:And thats' why they usually don't train with live explosives, isn't it? I'm an idiot civvie who couldn't join the military even if he wanted to (US military doesn't want toys that are already broken) so I have no idea how it goes. Every Marine has thrown at least 1 live grenade during training. gently caress ups happen and God bless the SOI instructors who are usually huge pieces of poo poo for throwing themselves on Marines that gently caress it up.
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I just can't understand how you can gently caress up 'throw this thing over the wall'. Even statistically 'the improbable becomes a certainty after enough repetition', but poo poo. They must have thrown a few dummy grenades first right?
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Outrail posted:I just can't understand how you can gently caress up 'throw this thing over the wall'. Even statistically 'the improbable becomes a certainty after enough repetition', but poo poo. They must have thrown a few dummy grenades first right? People get real shaky and nervous when they realize the thing they're holding can kill them in a split second. While practicing with a dummy gives you muscle memory for the throw, it doesn't prepare you for the real thing.
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Grem posted:Every Marine has thrown at least 1 live grenade during training. gently caress ups happen and God bless the SOI instructors who are usually huge pieces of poo poo for throwing themselves on Marines that gently caress it up. initially read this as every marine has thrown themselves on a grenade, which would substantially cut down on rape statistics in Okinawa if true
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flosofl posted:People get real shaky and nervous when they realize the thing they're holding can kill them in a split second. While practicing with a dummy gives you muscle memory for the throw, it doesn't prepare you for the real thing. Shouldn't they have an intermediate that does explode like a firecracker but doesn't send a hail of shrapnel everywhere? Or is that what they're using in the tests?
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syscall girl posted:Shouldn't they have an intermediate that does explode like a firecracker but doesn't send a hail of shrapnel everywhere? Not sure. I'll have to ask my brother. He just told me the most terrified he's ever been was the first time he threw a grenade and the first live fire exercise he did.
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Outrail posted:I just can't understand how you can gently caress up 'throw this thing over the wall'. Even statistically 'the improbable becomes a certainty after enough repetition', but poo poo. They must have thrown a few dummy grenades first right? You have this metal potato that can murder you dead within 15 feet of it going off, and you have to throw it and hope you don't gently caress up. I've never been in the military but given how I handle situations like that I wouldn't be shocked if i psyched myself out, went full  and ended up being frog tackled into a trench by the instructor.
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Panfilo posted:You have this metal potato that can murder you dead within 15 feet of it going off, and you have to throw it and hope you don't gently caress up. I've never been in the military but given how I handle situations like that I wouldn't be shocked if i psyched myself out, went full An uncle of mine has told me before (talking about funny stories from when he was in the military) that's a more common reaction than you might think, thus the safety dugouts you see in all these gifs and the instructors who know exactly what to do when it happens.
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syscall girl posted:Shouldn't they have an intermediate that does explode like a firecracker but doesn't send a hail of shrapnel everywhere? Yes, training grenades are used for training before the live test that's shown in the video. They have a blasting cap inside of an iron shell and make a good bang, but won't hurt you unless your finger is over the hole at the bottom, which is very hard to do.
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Rasmus posted:I remember someone mentioning that these drills can happen after doing tons of physical activity and sleep deprivation, so these people might be in a semi delirious and exhausted state. I'm not from the military so I don't know if thats accurate or just Oh nice. So aside from "this might kill me by accident" some of these guys might only be hearing "throw the pin, drop the grenade" in their fatigue induced stupor. Man, that bit in the Thin Red Line makes more abd more sense!
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H110Hawk posted:Today I woke up to these two emails: Not because its dangerous. But because maybe the label is the wrong format.
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wallaka posted:Yes, training grenades are used for training before the live test that's shown in the video. They have a blasting cap inside of an iron shell and make a good bang, but won't hurt you unless your finger is over the hole at the bottom, which is very hard to do. A friend of mine in middle school's dad had a dummy pineapple grenade. I thought it was drilled out for funsies but it might have been one of those.
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Panfilo posted:Oh nice. So aside from "this might kill me by accident" some of these guys might only be hearing "throw the pin, drop the grenade" in their fatigue induced stupor. Poor Woody 
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syscall girl posted:Poor Woody  "Tell my girl I killed fiddy men, and not that I blew my rear end off with a grenade!"
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Lotish posted:Now stop it in mid air and add Roundabout. This is what happens when I have too many mixed drinks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjCWmQbR2vQ edit: I mean I make stupid videos not that I drive off sweet ramps.
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ekuNNN posted:Trying to jump into the gracht in amsterdam (which would be schadenfreude even if it went right tbh) Gounads posted:Probably better than going in 10 seconds earlier and being run over by the boat. This is the funniest post in the last two pages. Its almost as though things could have a different outcome with a tweak of the space time continuum. Crossing a road must be a headfuck for you.
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syscall girl posted:A friend of mine in middle school's dad had a dummy pineapple grenade. I thought it was drilled out for funsies but it might have been one of those. Based on my experiences, there are three types of training grenades. The first one is just a metal/plastic dummy, which is the size, weight and shape of the grenade and will only hurt anyone if you throw it at their head. It might or might not have the working pin and handle. This is used to get the muscle memory for operating grenades in general. The second one, which is used to prepare for a live exercise, has real pin, handle and firing cap, and as someone mentioned, will "explode" with the force comparable to generic fireworks, this is used to memorize the sequence of actions. This will hurt you if it goes off in your and or pocket, and will kill you if you swallow it. In FDF there also is a "flour" variant, which explodes into a cloud of powder, also marking the "kill zone" of a real grenade, so if you got powdered you know you hosed up. And then there is the real thing. With conscription armies this is usually the most dangerous and fault-prone exercise in the basic training, so no sane battalion commander approves this training action after a physically demanding exercise or camp training. Usually, this is the only (or first) training activity of the day at the firing range. And people still manage to gently caress it up, because they are clumsy, nervous or just happen to have bad luck, like hitting their hand on the back wall of the bunker when throwing the live one. This is most likely also the only exercise in the basic training with the direct "gently caress up --> die instantly" effect for non-spec ops recruits.
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Hearsay posted:This is the funniest post in the last two pages. Its almost as though things could have a different outcome with a tweak of the space time continuum. Crossing a road must be a headfuck for you. What a strange thing to ridicule.
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"You grab my stick? Okay, sir, let's dance."
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Malachite_Dragon posted:"You grab my stick? Okay, sir, let's dance." I love the bit where the customer starts laughing at it Also the "No sir that's not my decoy cone, that's my first decoy cone" routine is never not funny
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The double cone trick is a time honored ice cream parlor tradition.
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I mean like every Turkish ice cream stand does that. It's the gimmick, it's performance art. There are some way longer and more  videos of it if you care to look
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Solice Kirsk posted:The double cone trick is a time honored ice cream parlor tradition. I wonder how many people lose their poo poo at these kinds of pranks. When I worked at an ice cream shop, people came in every day ready to fight me about their order. Like, "I order something off the menu with no substitutions and then shout at you for not making a substitution," ready to fight. People get real mad about ice cream!
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Platystemon posted:Is there a significant advantage to the Russian design or is it just a “gently caress you” to people who expect the spoon to do its job? No one in military design or procurement in Russia considers any of the peasant conscripts their weapons are designed for as people.
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Grenades cost potato, the dead... Cost nothing.
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She threw that like Chevy Chase in Spies Like Us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtpUTJci77s
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gently caress, that thing is pretty quick.
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