Darwin Awards 1. (Video)
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@Right_in_Virginia I came to the conclusion during basic training in the army that the instructors on the hand grenade range were all people that NOBODY liked.
If anyone had ordered me to go to a grenade range and teach a class,I would have told them to kiss my big red ass.
BTW,I had a very close friend that had spent over 5 years running secret classified combat missions that were NOT in VN,decide to marry his Okinawan girlfriend after she got pregnant,and back away from Special Operations to try to live a normal married life for the child's benefit. He even got out of SF,and was sent to Hawaii to train NG troops.
Hell,the first time I met him he was assigned to us on Okinawa while recovering from wounds received working special ops in 1964. He was also one of the NICEST human beings you could ever hope to meet. I left Okie for the states due to a screwup in the paperwork on my extension,and immediately volunteered for VN as a short cut to getting back to Okie.
While getting treatment at an army hospital at Nha Trang,I happened to look up,and there he was,walking though the hospital wearing indigenous fatigues,a black beret with a Trogan Horse on it,and with USA Captain's bars on the black beret. I jumped up and screamed "Charlie,you sweet SOB,come here and give me a hug!",and he did. He told me he had gotten shot up again on an operation,and was just getting released from the hospital. He wouldn't say where he had been working or who he had been working with,and I knew better than to ask. I just told him to say "Hello" to his wife for me when he got back to Okie,wished him well,and watched him walk away.
Didn't find out he was dead or what happened until the mid-70's. Still a little pissed about his death.
I ended up getting medivaced from VN a year later,and didn't end up transferred back to Okie,or I would have known about it.
He died on the rifle range while setting up targets due to the carelessness of a NG trooper handing a M-60 Machine gun while he was downrange. He took a burst through the stomach and died at the range.
Ask ANY Regular Army or Regular USMC infantryman if ANYONE is allowed to touch ANY weapon at a firing range when someone is downrange setting up targets,or doing anything else. They will look at you like you are a clueless fool.
Am I the only one getting to the point where I freaking HATE history?
