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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Three feet of standoff from a pound of C-4, 700 pellets, and a plastic case with sharp steel legs pointed back at you? You were a wild man, weren't you? 
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Now there was this time when I was in the 5th Group while on a deployment with 7th Group. For some reason I was picked as a range safety NCO. In fact our team was tagged as safety NCOs for most of the deployment. Seems we were just about the only team that had the required Range safety cards for that post. Still wondering if our 3 shop did that on purpose.
It was a live fire assault with a demo target, I guess thats why I got tagged. They had evaluators moving with them. I was to open the range, wait at the jump off point and make sure the teams actions on target were safe.
As the team moved past I IDed the "demo man" and asked him the time on his firing system. He said "One minute". The team assualted the target and I moved up looking at the demo team as they placed the charges. I was standing behind the "demo man" as he hooked into the ring main, gave "fire in the hole", pulled the fuze lighters, gave "burning" jumps up and runs off.
I leaned down to view the system and went "SHIT". That was no one minute firing system. I turned and got about three good steps before the charges went off. That one put my face in the dirt. The best I got from the team was that they were in a hurry in isolation.
Pete
No room for "demo men" on my team - only engineers.