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Originally Posted by mojaveman
I saw something very similiar to that happen at Ft. Lewis back in '83 when I was in the 9th ID.
We had a female MP who was something of a clutz draw her arm back to throw a grenade and she dropped it. Right quick, a respected Company NCO who was acting as a safety kicked it into the sump, threw her to the ground and covered her body with his. He took a few fragments of schrapnel in his legs and ended up receiving a Soldiers Medal from the Division Comander, MG Ricassi.
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BZ! Nowadays if that happened he'd be up on charges.
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