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5 hours ago, otisdog said:

Seems odd to me that they were cutting in to grenades. I guess it was bad to assume that they were inert?

Whoever they confiscated the grenades from is going to be charged as a cop killer three times over.

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On 7/18/2025 at 3:22 PM, Schulz2.0 said:

Ordinance. Always the dumbest people on the aircraft carrier.

I know a gal that is an ordinance officer or something like that.  She is very dumb.  Nice tits though 

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Is it the one that went off?  Maybe?

This puzzles me.  Grenades have to have the initiating mechanism in place to go off.  Screw out the initiating mechanism and it takes a lot to set off the filler.  Surely explosives experts would have removed the initiators before moving them.

I guess that if the grenade was very old and the filler was degraded it might be more sensitive and easier to set off, but it sounds to me like someone was playing around and got Darwined.

CSB: My reserve unit went to MCAGCC 29 Palms for live fire training.  The night before we returned, the entire battalion had a complete dump everything on the rack gear inspection to ensure that no one took home any C4, live ammo, or other dangerous souvenirs.  One Marine in my company had two live smoke grenades and one high explosive hand grenade in his sea bag.  He had another HE grenade in his ALICE pack.  A Marine in another company had three 40mm grenades, one of which was white phosphorus, in his sea bag.  Explosions and the explosives that cause them make people stupid.

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Which still doesn't answer the question of why you'd bring a sketchy explosive back to the office.  Take it out ot a pasture and shoot it with a .223 or something.

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Is it the one that went off?  Maybe?
This puzzles me.  Grenades have to have the initiating mechanism in place to go off.  Screw out the initiating mechanism and it takes a lot to set off the filler.  Surely explosives experts would have removed the initiators before moving them.
I guess that if the grenade was very old and the filler was degraded it might be more sensitive and easier to set off, but it sounds to me like someone was playing around and got Darwined.
CSB: My reserve unit went to MCAGCC 29 Palms for live fire training.  The night before we returned, the entire battalion had a complete dump everything on the rack gear inspection to ensure that no one took home any C4, live ammo, or other dangerous souvenirs.  One Marine in my company had two live smoke grenades and one high explosive hand grenade in his sea bag.  He had another HE grenade in his ALICE pack.  A Marine in another company had three 40mm grenades, one of which was white phosphorus, in his sea bag.  Explosions and the explosives that cause them make people stupid.

I’ve been on 3 grenade callouts. Each time it was wife/relative going through grandpa’s shit after he died. All 3 had been disarmed many years ago, with one being used as a paperweight on peepaw’s desk. We blew all 3 in place. Bomb tech didn’t even attempt to disarm them, and obviously if he had it would have been clear they were duds. No reason to put anyone in that position when there was nothing to gain. Not sure why these folks felt it necessary to move live shit, transport it back, and then just leave it sitting around.
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The two Japanese grenades my Dad brought back from the 1943 Alaska Aleutian Campaign were deactivated without any explosive materials. 
They were pretty cool paperweights, but I gave them to my neighbor - a BATFE explosives expert - for his collection.

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