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Claymores
We were setting up a (training) linear ambush, nothing fancy and we’re about to emplace the claymores when one of the guys said “just set it in front of that tree at the base and we will not have to worry about foreign objects getting thrown back at us.” Sure! “WILCO”. (the “tree was a Ft Bragg pine, tall and skinny)
We set out a few mines and finished laying the wire, everything looked good and we settled in for a critique of our set up. We looked good, CDR was happy and now all that was left to do was to “roll” the targets for a live fire! (We had a set of 6 targets on a “very” long rope and they were pulled through the ambush site for our benefit.
Targets start rolling and we flip the safeties off the clackers for the claymores to initiate the ambush.
My buddy holding the clacker starts yelling:
“FIRE IN THE HOLE, FIRE IN THE HOLE, FIRE IN THE BOOOOOM.”
All is quiet for a second and then you hear:
“TIMMMMBERRRR”
Funny as hell, the tree neatly cut at the base was now falling straight back onto our positions. Lesson learned and no one lost an eye.
Team Sergeant
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"The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy, but where they are."
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