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As the former safety officer for Demo Committee, I can Amen that.
I will never forget trying to count the delayed explosions after the demo ambush went off.
And no one ever went downrange before we checked. Many times, I would ask if that was seven "crumps" or only six.
I have seen M67 frags cut in half by the det cord wrap, and some with a piece of shredded tape being the only thing holding the spoon down.
Fortunately, as the good Colonel required of me, we lost no fingers, toes, or demo.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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