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Originally Posted by longrange1947
Setting up additional explosives, ie granades which is tied to the det cord of the claymores, adds more confusion, especially if placed in the likely hide spots for that area of the trail. This can be done in addition to the CS powder.
Have fun!!
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Care must be used with grenades, det cord and claymores. A "demo man" who shall remain nameless was conducting his portion of demolition training for the company. It was a mechanical ambush and had a bunch of nasty items to include grenades, det cord and claymores.
As just an engineer from another team, I was following the instruction but not involved, I was keeping an eye on my guys.
As the guys were setting out the stuff the hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I mentioned to the demo man that it just didn't look right. He was like "No problem, I've done this many times."
We finished up, headed back to the ditch and with a hearty "Fire in the Hole" the ambush was touched off. Everybody jumped up and headed down range. It was at this point that I had to step in and told everybody to stop and wait until the range was checked.
he demo man and I headed down range. He's just toolin' along with a big smile on his face and I'm a bit slower because I'm looking at the ground. When we got to the ambush position I shouted at him to stop and look around. We were standing in the middle of a bunch of hand grenades that were semi cooked off.
When the claymores fired a bunch of the steel balls scattered and hit the grenades in a number of ways. There were some with the spoons half off, spoons gone and a hole near the fuze charge and any variation in between. He backed out a lot slower than he went in.
While the company continued training in another location the next few hours were right interesting.