tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post7741540918032587218..comments2023-06-25T20:42:38.014-07:00Comments on CI-Roller Dude: The good old days...Combat EngineersCI-Roller Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10850472230525879415noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post-1670847612311027602011-01-26T00:32:05.255-08:002011-01-26T00:32:05.255-08:00Anon's "1. Policed up pretty good in the ...Anon's "1. Policed up pretty good in the war zone. The little b****ds could figure out how to turn just about anything into a weapon".<br /><br />How very true. In my decades of having Irish Republican terrorism shaping my professional (and occasionally private) life, it was shocking to find out how powerful HOMEX really was. A good bomb maker could get to something like 85% effect of commercial. Amazing, scary shit.Hogdayafternoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06188146617570775741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post-44929742516349898422011-01-23T22:05:24.196-08:002011-01-23T22:05:24.196-08:00Well there's something I wouldn't try with...Well there's something I wouldn't try with an NG based stick of powder. TNT, we love the stability, no?anonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03703233313854600531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post-57999562310763575392011-01-23T18:59:01.694-08:002011-01-23T18:59:01.694-08:00Dangerous you playing with dynamite and fire like ...Dangerous you playing with dynamite and fire like that. EEEK! Boys. lolMomma Fargohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17625178164224513103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post-63297339827401285862011-01-23T13:11:51.906-08:002011-01-23T13:11:51.906-08:001. Policed up pretty good in the war zone. The lit...1. Policed up pretty good in the war zone. The little b****ds could figure out how to turn just about anything into a weapon.<br />2. The Army was hell on policing brass. Saw a couple soldiers get courtmartialed for possessing a few cartridge cases.<br />3. The Marines were much slacker. They said the words, but didn't back them up. <br />4. Most Marines, deployed or stateside, had some ammunition squirreled away -just in case.<br />5. Remember a good one on Okinawa.<br />We were overnighting at a live fire range.<br />6. The Japanese communists were demonstrating outside the wire.(Pick your nose and they'd protest about that....)<br />7. Instructed the ammo guard myself.<br />8. Bn policy was to walk guard with a sheathed bayonet stuck on the rifle.<br />9. Told the guards, if they spotted anybody, to take the bayonet off the rifle. If there was any question of employing violence, they were to put the rifle down and engage by other means.<br />10. One of my brighter lights spots a creeper.<br />11. He takes the bayonet off his rifle. Puts the rifle down. Picks up a board from one of the ammo crates and smacks the creeper in the back of his head.<br />12. The creeper falls down, jumps up, and runs out into the impact area.<br />13. At this point, I am awakened and spend the next several hours waiting for a loud noise from the impact area.<br />14. The JCP was no threat to us. They were looking for Gotchas -mostly violations of the SOFA's that would help their efforts to remove us from the island.<br />15. Usual policy was to detain intruders and let the Japanese Police haul them away. They were always polite and followed instructions.<br />16. Private Bright Light was very emphatic and self righteous about having followed my instructions.<br />17. Heartily wished I'd said a few less words.<br />V/R JWestAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post-25603246911791331902011-01-22T18:38:00.438-08:002011-01-22T18:38:00.438-08:00Cool pictures, RD.
Hmmm..So do combat engineers ...Cool pictures, RD.<br /> <br />Hmmm..So do combat engineers start out blowing lots of stuff up as kids? <br />Just wondering.. we went to a wash today, near our shooting spot. We had a..ummm, really, uhhh, BIG 'firecracker' that just needed to blow a hole in the side of a dry wash. You know, just to see what would happen? (run gophers, run!)<br />But we forgot to say "Fire in the hole!" <br />Do-over, right?<br />lolWrexiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17687613150705761665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post-1294549489236571182011-01-22T16:17:59.479-08:002011-01-22T16:17:59.479-08:0030 year old TNT - gosh Uncle Sam's a frugal fe...30 year old TNT - gosh Uncle Sam's a frugal fellow!<br /><br />PaxPaxfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05402369357419216865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post-33818858701847347492011-01-22T15:56:08.430-08:002011-01-22T15:56:08.430-08:00Oh, in state side training, we had to turn in the ...Oh, in state side training, we had to turn in the brass, the paper/ cardboard boxes, the cloth bags and every little thing that came out of the box. If we were short, we had to fill out all kinds of paper. <br /><br />Signing out demo was even worse.<br /><br />In Kuwait and Iraq, we just threw all the shit in the trash (dust bin)...but a few REMFS there tried to have us turn in brass one day at the practice range. I had to ask the REMF where they were going to turn it in at....He had no idea, but thought that was what was always done. I asked if he expected us to stop and pick up brass after a gun fight. He walked away and left us alone.CI-Roller Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10850472230525879415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post-85035129333657419812011-01-22T14:34:58.923-08:002011-01-22T14:34:58.923-08:00You know how those REMF paper pushers are...each s...You know how those REMF paper pushers are...each shell had a number and all the brass had to be policed and the numbers accounted for. In the Navy, the brass went over the side.Coffeypothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08601474604616163167noreply@blogger.com