@@mylittlebrotherca9691 yeeeeessss. That's soooooo much more important than the fright of the mystical safety pin. Also it's wrong what Alan Toon said, after the pin is pulled Mr. Grenade is your siamese twin until you are sure you get a very good clear throw. You never rush the throw, NEVER. Had to go on resetting the brains of a group of trainees on basic then argued whith someone who was convinced that safety pin and quick throw were more important than good solid grip and proper throw form. Even our drill Sargeant is making sure the trainee understands the good form.
@@MairinGoBragh yep. Didn't happen to me but when i see those videos of chinese messing up their throws and just barely getting out alive (only because of the immediate response of their supervisor) i get some chills. Bad handling, bad form, rushing turns into a undesirable recipe.
@@Quinmcgaming it means the trainee is still ate up and doesn't have the reaction time of a Drill Sgt., before the trainee gets his bearings straight and jumps over the wall the DS will already be behind cover
When i was in boot camp our grenade instructor showed off his scars. He got them during a live fire when the recruit ducked behind the wall before he threw the grenade. It bounced off the wall and fell back into the pit. The instructor grabbed the idiot recruit and threw him out of the pit to safety before even attempting to protect himself. The grenade went off as he was jumping out. He took severe splash damage to the left side of his body. From ankle to mid back. I will never forget the lessons i learned that day, other then throw before you duck. And that was situational awareness and selflessness.
I remember basic training back in 1984, throwing that grenade at 19 years old, the rush of adrenaline I had at the time was riveting to say the least, I got a expert badge in the grenade later on
Congratulations? You wanna cookie? Was it more of an adrenaline rush than when your drill seargant pegged you with no lube and didn't even have the common courtesy to give a man a reacharound?
@@kenz2756 how is it less accurate, if it is more inclusive and therefore more accurate in grouping? Please be more accurate in explaining your thinking, will you?
@@RC-br1ps There you go, you've answered it yourself. Which one is more pinpointed in grouping? Congratulations, if had to explain it to you it would mean you're daft.
Fort Benning Easy Company class of 2006-07. Grenade training went like this. Instructors hand us 2 grenades, we place in our pouches. They go over their instructions. We each threw 2 live grenades no issues. Super fun times.
This is fury 1-81. I was in that cycle, and he was not what I would describe as chill lol. All the drills in fury toned it down and focused on teaching when it was time for it to make sure we were actually learning, but the rest of the time, they'd usually go in on you.
While it is worth pointing out that fellow PVT wasn't standing at parade rest, we also have to take into account that they were training with grenades. I'd assume they are cool, calm & collected like how they train at the range. No yelling or screaming, just a moment of learning and absorbing information.
It's better to be cool, calm and collected and focus. I think that's what most people would actually want than a panicking person and if it was real grenade. Oof goodbye to the those next to you and you
One scary ass day in basic😄 When we went for the actual live grenade qualification and were in the bunker feeling the damn walls and ground shake... definitely put the fear of God into us😂never squeezed something so damn tight in my life😄❤️🇺🇲❤️ God bless them EOD dudes, Guardian angels one and all man🙏🇺🇲🙏
@@FIRENICEWOLF 😂Hoah MRI bombs in the crapper was about as brave as my wimp butt gets with the boom booms😂 My Ranger buddy was knowledgeable with all that stuff butt I was too much of a woos to mess with anything that could send my rectum through my skull😄 Glad your home safe brother 🇺🇲
@@hope4ourfallen me too brother! Still passed qualifications but damn if my asshole didn’t pucker when that grenade exploded above the ground and not on it 🤣
I just want to say thank you for training in the army to fight for our country. I wish I was in the army when I was 18 because if I was I would never leave
I enlisted in the Infantry in the 90s and now I'm an old veteran and miss it every day. If I could I'd have stayed in active duty til I die. It was the best thing I ever did and the hardest thing I ever did. It wasn't just a job. It was a brotherhood and an adventure.
@@jackdaniel7465 and another for the short bus. It was a joke and a reference to Looney Tunes with Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian. Damn just delete your comment and il delete this. Yall buzz kill joke killers like damn. If you ain't get the joke you could have just asked what's this is about?
@@anubis20049999 I don't have to delete anything, I said nothing wrong, why are you so unhinged and triggered because I said it was "A practice grenade" didn't know you was referring to a cartoon, But obviously it unhinged you, must suck to be you then!!!
@@anubis20049999 you could have did the same thing and either no replied or said "Thanks" and went about your day, but instead you felt the need to tell me what to do, well it doesn't work that way little fella, don't be butt hurt and just MAN UP!!!🤣🤣🤡
I remember holding the two up to my chest standing against the wall, just constant pounding through the air into my chest. I laugh at the explosions in movies now, nothing is like the real thing.
@@SubvertTheState You can feel it in your body from so far away. Then you throw one. That handheld metal ball of death made me come to terms with my own mortality that day.
I saw a trainee not make his grenade over the wall in basic training. Sadly, he and the drill sergeant perished. The range shut down for a short time then resumed. When my turn came up, I said to my sergeant, "Don't worry. That won't happen to us." He asked, "so you saw that?" "Yeah, "I said. After my toss, I have him my condolences for the loss of his brother in arms.
@@JasmineMartinForeverASaint 1987 was the year I was there for basic and AIT at Ft Leonard Wood. If I remember, it was something like late summer into fall I was there. Right after I graduated high school here in South Dakota. I didn't know there was any info about it out there online. Never looked. Is that what you see?
@@JasmineMartinForeverASaint Wow. I just looked it up and found an article on UPI. That's the one. I was in E company so I didn't know the kid. It said he was in A company. The drill sergeant named Hall sounds familiar though.
Gen X: so throw it like a baseball? GenZ: Like on RBI baseball 21 on the XBox? Gen X: No. Like a baseb- skip it. Like one of peaceful protestors throwing half bricks in Portland. GenZ: I'm on it sarge!
For those watching this without the military background to understand what he is explaining and why the technique is emphasized so much to where It just becomes muscle memory here’s a little primer Even if you don’t make a mistake but have arm extended back like a baseball throw and some secondary blast throws that live grenade backwards and lands in your firing position your fucked. Whereas using the more shot put like through where you push out and get arch on it might not have quite the range but with it tucked back it’s not going to fall backwards I can’t imagine how many friendly cas situations there were in first half of 20th century before these sorts of things were emphasized And since it’s not like it would accidentally wipe out an entire unit but even a guy killing himself and/or a battle buddy isn’t going to show up on the radar when the leadership is trying to set up a beachhead in southern France and establish supply lines that can extend all the way through Europe etc So I bet it wasn’t til after wwii I’d guess when they started to go back and look at data on casualty events and stuff where they noticed that stuff happening and developed the simple protocols and instructions to resolve it. I’m pretty sure too that the German stielhangranate (sp?) “potato masher” stick grenades were designed with this in mind since your hand creates a fulcrum on handle that will absorb unexpected shock to some degree
Haha glad you broke it down like that.. I got my ass chewed a few times in basic for just chucking it 😅. Proper way tho is the shot put method.. but at the same token both methods have their place and scenario
On my wife’s site: I was a Navy Corpsman in school to become qualified for duty to serve with Marine Corps combat units. Our grenade training was with just the detonator, without powder. We went through all the motions, but we were throwing an old plastic milk crate, and got a “pop” with no “boom”. Anticlimactic, to say the least. So, me being me, I decided to liven things up. I initially went through all the motions, but when it was time to throw, I went into a baseball pitcher’s stance to hold the runner at 1st base. Before anyone could stop me, I pulled the grenade up just behind my ear, pulled the pin, and let the spoon fly. Then, I took a second or two to adjust my grip, and unleashed a fastball that detonated just as it hit dead center in the crate. I received a “stern message” from the Gunny in charge(he did tell me later though that it was a “combat throw”, and we were still in training), but it was hard to get too mad. I mean, we were just a bunch of “Squids”, trying to learn how to be Pseudo Marines in a 6 week course!!! I think the DI’s were happy that we managed to run in formation to a cadence!! OORAH!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
"Drop the pin, throw the grenade. You got that?" "Yessir. Drop the pin, throw the grenade." *drops the grenade, throws the pin* _"YOU DUMBASS SONOVA--"_
When I first started carrying live grenades everyday, it made me nervous. I would gingerly take off my gear and gently place it down. After about 3 weeks I would come in and throw that crap down. 🤣
I didn't really like the live throw grenade range during basic. Went through a 1 hour class just to finally get there and the instructor did almost all the steps and all I had to do was pull the pin and throw it. But they didn't tell me that so I was twisting the pin you have to pull out remembering the class and thinking that was the safety pin I have to twist off. The instructor was like "Trainee why are you twisting?! Just pull the pin and throw it!" So I did just that and threw it. After the fact I was like "What the hell was the point of the class if they already did everything for us?" I know after the fact it was for safety reasons so nobody dies but it was still a bit annoying.
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Back in the day I don’t know if they still do it, but if you tossed it and didn’t duck fast enough or froze, whatever, you wake up on the floor… literally two monsters tackling you…
@@joshuaholman1795 yep they will hit you harder than a linebacker and then berate you for an hour after ...about how stupid you are ....happened to a buddy in my squad he was private "Dumb ass" from that day forward until graduation
I spent my birthday at Army BCT when I joined, and that day we were taught how to throw hand grenades and we went through the Hand Grenade Qualification Course... Good birthday!
Haha, the NCO that was with me was 6'+ and definitely over 200 lbs. My 5'7" 145 lbs ass was worried about him snapping me in half if I fucked up. I put it to my chest, death gripped the spoon, pulled that pin, aimed and chucked the grenade. It went KABOOM! He laughed when I said, "Wow! That was fucking awesome!" My DS however, did not find that amusing haha. I still didn't get smoked though.
1 girl dropped a live grenade in the pit. She thrown out 1 way. The NCOIC of the grenade course went the other side. BOOM. She walked out & just had a big grin on her face & just started screaming at the top of her lungs. Took a couple DS to control her. Don't know what happened to her. My experience: Threw it & flew short.Felt the shreds of steel fly right over.
@@earlwible1231 I have no arm to speak of (even less at my age now, needing rotator cuff surgery on both sides!), but I threw that thing as freaking far as I’ve ever thrown something. They made us cook it off for a three count; that was the longest three seconds I’ve ever experienced.
A trainee in my cycle had to demonstrate when a grenade falls in ur pit and instead of jumping out he hid behind the drill sergeant and crouched down. Funniest moment ever
@@michaelwerkov3438 at 0:15 he's in position to throw but instead drops his hand lower to try and throw harder hence the double right now he's in a wide open space with no weapon or gear on like ammo pouches or a ruck... wild movement throws is how you catch something and barely throw it or even worse... you get hung up and drop it
@@davidblackman1586 Look who found his big brain! Call me whatever you’d like, if it gets you to not type all ‘tarded. Hell, you even used a comma. Look at you go!
Thanks to all the DIs out there keeping us all safe through this hard work. And a special call out to DI Fleming who kept me from loosing an eye down range. Yeah, you know who I am. Blessings!
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I remember the grenade range at Ft. Polk it left me with impressions. The first of which was exactly how smart was it to give a 18 year old kid a hand held bomb. Later I got a rifle made by Mattel company and my suspicions were confirmed.😊
I remember they used to tell us horror stories that a trainee would pull the pin and then hug the drill and take both of them out. Due to that, they would tell us if we pull the pin and the grenade isn’t properly thrown from our hand in a timely manner, they’re grabbing our arm and breaking it on the concrete until we drop the grenade on the other side of the wall.
Good, I never was told many stories but I used to think about what if someone at firing training, idk what it’s called , decides to go crazy like that guy in Full Metal Jacket
@@nv_chinoAn NCO sits up in the firing range control tower with a fully loaded rifle watching and if anyone points their rifle towards their buddies or the Drill Sgt the NCO has orders to kill them from the tower.
Something like that happened once. I remember a video of lady practicing with a live grenade and she failed miserably, nearly killing herself and the instructor (who grabbed her and threw her and himself into a surrounding trench in the nick of time
It's exiting feeling when you throw hard grenade. Many men in Finland have this experiense because we have no professional army. Almost all men are soldiers. Because we have russia in neighbour.
I remember this like it was yesterday except back in 1979 we didn't have anything that resembled safety gear. Hilarious how soft Basic Training has gotten!
I never got the chance to throw live grenades in basic because a private tried to switch hands at the grenade range two weeks prior after pulling the pin and dropped the grenade. The drill jumped on the grenade but it killed him and the private. So all we got to throw were the little sparkies because of the investigation. Ft. Lost in the woods..1987
When the guy who dropped it hit the floor, I would have grabbed it & threw it too! Worked Instructor grenade range. I can still count to ten without taking my boots off.
Same here. It got my total attention when I took a grenade out of the fiber and it was OD with yellow markings. Threw that thing twice as far as I ever dreamed I could.
Halfway back to the barracks from chow and I get grabbed for a "hey you" duty. Ended up at the range helping dispose of several cases of grenades. So fun!
And that’s why the technique is emphasized so much to where Tw muscle memory Even if you don’t make a mistake but have arm extended back like a baseball throw and some secondary blast throws that live grenade backwards and lands in your firing position your fucked. Whereas using the more shot put like through where you push out and get arch on it might not have been ii Tw the range but with it tucked back it’s not going to fall backwards I can’t imagine how many friendly cas situations there were in first half of 20th century before these sorts of things were emphasized And since it’s lot like it would accidentally wipe out an entire unit but even a guy killing himself and/or a battle buddy isn’t going to show up on the radar when the leadership is trying to set up a beachhead in southern France and establish supply lines that can extend all the way through Europe etc So I bet it wasn’t til after wwii I’d guess when they started to go back and look at data on casualty events and stuff where they noticed that stuff happening and developed the simple protocols and instructions to resolve it. I’m pretty sure too that the German stielhangranate (sp?) “potato masher” stick grenades were designed with this in mind since your hand creates a fulcrum on handle that will absorb unexpected shock to some degree
I felt bad for not throwing it the furthest. Looking back I'm just glad my technique was good. I still hit my targets and threw the live far enough away though. That NCO was so happy. Some privates threw it right in front of the barrier. Looking back as a former 68W that man better have gone to get himself checked out after that training.
They so tough with their safety vest on. How cute 😍 They going to do so well against the enemy. Always remember that only the government matters! Your life doesn't matter.
In the USAF security forces tech school, we were throwing live grenades and the person next to me threw their grenade straight down barely over the cement wall. It rained dirt for a hot minute and she got surrounded by a swarm of training instructors. That would have sucked in combat. Please throw your grenades far away from me. 👊😎👌🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@johndavis4082 Air Force Tech School is the next phase of training that follows Basic Military Training (BMT). Usually, Airmen who have graduated BMT will be immediately sent to tech school, to start learning the skills and knowledge for the particular job you have signed up to do.
@@maylin1986 Having My bachelors degree I can say with confidence it was definitely like college only way more intense. It carries with it a sense of real life urgency. But if you want a college degree I strongly suggest you do officer training school program. I regret not doing it. It's not that hard.
did my BCT 2009 and I still miss those days, I was medical discharged due a L3 L4 injury while getting ready to get deployed, it sucked but it is what it is
Ah good memories on granade range. Was selected to be a part of the Norwegian home guard exchange with the minnesota national guard. And we youths got to throw training granades (we got a bit dissapointed when we learned that we were going to throw training granades and not real ones. It said on the white board that activity of the day was granade throwing. But looking back on it today if we were to throw real ones then alot of us wouldn't be here today.) We got abit confused on how we were to throw the granades as the instructur said we were to throw it as it was a metal ball (those they use in the olympic games) so the first few granades landed way short of the target, so we just threw them how we felt like it. And a few managed to hit the intended targets. We also got to crawl up to a makeshift bunker and throw a granade inside and quickly roll away from the bunker as the granade exploded. ( haha even a guy on my team managed to chuck the granade inside the bunker and out the door of the bunker so the granade landed on the outside and exploded) we also had a former marine as a team leader so when ever he threw our granades we yelled KILL! To please the marine, god damn was that former marine guardsman such a cool guy. Lastly the teams had a competition on who's granades managed to land the closet to the middle of three targets, and we had a national guardsmen 2nd lt as the platoon leader who stood a few feet to the left of the targets so he could see if the granades landed near the targets. And when it got to me to throw the granade i aimed for the target but instead of flying towards the targets it almost hit the 2nd LT. Head on, (i don't know what it is but everytime i throw something the object in my head becomes a heat seeking missil and aims for the closet person.) After the cometition wss over we had to collect all the granades and pins and this was when there was snow on the ground, so we ended up spending an hour looking for one granade, like we walked in a straight line and dig up the snow to see if the granade laid under it. Man Norex was one or if not the best thing i ever took part in. From m4 and m17 shooting black hawk riding why it flew tacticly where it flew high up in the air only to dive and you could feel in in you that the gravity was almost turned off, they also flew under the tree tops from side to side. to having a barracks compition where we had to make skits and use what ever we had in our bunk bedrooms and show it to high ranking Norwegian and american officers. Our if anyones wondering was about a fictional battle in holland where american attacked a german bunker. So we tried to make the best tank we could with the help of our beds and lockers. And the bunker turned out well but the tank turned out to look like big box with trash cans as the barrel. An other team made an cv90 infantry carrier almost like the american Bradley with an rotating turret, an hatch tha opened and closed and crew compartment were the infantry could sit and wait to be deployed and a compand consisting of a few rooms. Their skit was about an infantry deployef out of the cv 90 take out few baddies and clear the compond tend to their wounded and re-enter the cv 90 and head off. The last team skit was about an Norwegian fairytale thats common in Norway. (It called askeladden that tricked the troll) Where they made three scenes in the fairytale where one was about askeladden wss send out by his parents to gather wood after his other brothers had ran home due to seing an troll. So they used some of the lockers with a blanket over them to make them look like trees, so while askeladden were busy hacking wood the troll appered and told askeladden that he was going to eat him. But askeladden tricked the troll in a way that resulted in the troll had to help askeladden chop wood. Scene: 2. After a day's work the troll invited askeladden to his home to eat Dinner and on the menu was porriage. (milk and rice) So in this scene the team had made a dinner table with chairs, with well a table and chairs (no need to make something you already have) so the troll sat down on one side of the table and askeladden sat down on the other the troll handed askeladden his food and they ate, and after a while of eating the troll started to get full but he saw askeladden just ate and ate. Confused by this the troll asked askeladden how he is not getting full. Askeladden replied with if you cut open your belly you can eat as much and not get full so wanting to not let the human beat him the troll cut open his Belly (but here's the thing askeladden carried with him an backpack so when they ate he just stuffed the food in backpack and just pretend to eat. And when he cut open his belly he really just cut open the backpack so the food he stuffed in there came out.) By cutting his belly open the troll killed himself. Scene: 3 in this scene the team had created a castle made out of lockers and blanket and also a draw bridge that could be lowered and raised also they had costumes of guards, king and a prinsess (daughter of the king) So after the troll kiled him self after being tricked by askeladden, he draged the body of the troll to the castle and called out the king for hid reward. (The reward for slaying the troll that had terrorised the kingdom was getting given half the kingdom and the prinsess to marry.) So the draw bride was lowered and out came the king, guards and prinsess after seeing the troll the king gave askeladden his reward and he and the prinsess lived happily ever after and the for the credits they played the god damn star wars song (iconic ep 4 song) Safe to say the fairttale team won that cometition due to high ranking american officers got to see and listen to a Norwegian fairytale and since its so unique than the other war related skits that was shown.
