A hand grenade can go off in 4-5 seconds. Ever hear the saying "throws like a girl"? In the (new) Marine Corps (with women in combat), this is what it looks like....filmed on location at Camp Pendleton, CA.
I cannot believe what I just watched. Apparently there was no training on the proper way to throw a HG. It is simply incredible that those Marines would allow such a thing to happen. Absolutely no technique displayed, from proper hold, body position and stance to the weak arm position (you don't throw a HG like a softball- you stiff arm it, ya know?). Take your wife's 1 lb hand weight and try throwing it like a baseball- you'll see what I mean. Now, heave it over your head from your hip with your body at a 90 deg to the target area and arm straight- using your shoulder and back muscles- it'll go ~35 m easily for a man in decent health.
That student must have been an ROTC Senator's kid or something.
Those Marine instructors must have been prosecuted for their horrible failure. At least the primary NCO got to jump her bones in a way before being reduced in rank for it....
Yes, I have thrown a few a live HGs, in trng as well as in combat.
Posts: 1082 | Location: MidWest USA | Registered: 27 April 2013
Originally posted by Kensco: Time to get that recruit a typewriter.
Maybe she is the typist? Generally, many women do not know how to throw. It is difficult for them as it is for us to throw with your left hand, if you're not a Lefty.
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Originally posted by HPMaster: I cannot believe what I just watched. Apparently there was no training on the proper way to throw a HG. It is simply incredible that those Marines would allow such a thing to happen. Absolutely no technique displayed, from proper hold, body position and stance to the weak arm position (you don't throw a HG like a softball- you stiff arm it, ya know?). Take your wife's 1 lb hand weight and try throwing it like a baseball- you'll see what I mean. Now, heave it over your head from your hip with your body at a 90 deg to the target area and arm straight- using your shoulder and back muscles- it'll go ~35 m easily for a man in decent health.
That student must have been an ROTC Senator's kid or something.
Those Marine instructors must have been prosecuted for their horrible failure. At least the primary NCO got to jump her bones in a way before being reduced in rank for it....
Yes, I have thrown a few a live HGs, in trng as well as in combat.
In the late 80's some poor dumb smuck complained that he got nightmares shooting at silouet targets in the Danish military. So in the mid 90's when soldiers was deployed to the Balkan noone could hit sh!7 and they actually had to send them to additional shooting training where they had to learn where to aim at human targets.
Fezz up! The army is where you learn to kill people and thats all! It's not a summer camp, it's not a debate club where you get's to question what is ordered. It's do what you're told or die camp.
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One of the reasons that the English were so successful during the peninsular campaign (besides Wellington) was that they were the only army at that time that trained with live ammo.
I wouldn't be throwing her in the sand bagged pit ,ahead of me.
Grizz
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Where I used to work we made stun grenades. We threw a LOT of them in development and testing. Everyone wanted to throw one. After a big muscleman threw one like the girl in the video we learned to have the new guy throw a rock first.
Mark
Posts: 1234 | Location: Arizona | Registered: 09 January 2005
Yup, thats what the pit is for behind the sandbags. We had a guy pull the pin on the cast iron practice grenade(cork and black powder inside) and let the handle go while holding behind his head. Burnt the crap out of his hand and neck---he sat out the live grenade throw! He also turned around with a live round in his M-1 and pointed it at the instructor in the advancing fire target round. All instructors hit the dirt screaming at him! One Gomer Pyle in every platoon.
I watched one recruit get out of his foxhole and chase his scorecard downrange on a windy day...it blew out of his helmet band during the live fire... That was kind of funny, safety wise everyone had stopped firing anyway and watched the dumbass try and get that piece of paper.
Shoot straight, shoot often. Matt
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