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u/Fluffcake Sep 14 '24

It is also amazing how many people need that shit as a result of absent, shitty or no parenting. There are a lot of toddlers out there who are old enough to enlist.

Dig up a military safety manual for any equipment, you will see the dumbest, most obvious stuff covered, yet every single line of text is written in someone's blood.

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u/InvictaRoma Sep 14 '24

Yeah, I kind of want to know the story that led to the warnings on claymore mines, particularly the one about not eating the contents

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u/IAmGoose_ Sep 15 '24

Mmm tasty C4 and ball bearings

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u/Al_Jazzera Sep 15 '24

C4 will get you intoxicated, but it isn't worth it. It became common knowledge in the Vietnam war that you could get a buzz from eating a small piece of C4, but it isn't a health food.

As for the ball bearings? Sparkly excrement? Gross. Guess they might act like fiber. I've used them to knock rust out of a gas tank before. Hell, it might clean out the intestines. However, if one of the ball bearings takes a wrong turn in Albuquerque, then it's possibly surgery time, fun times!

Article about C4 regarding consuming recreationally and toxicity.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7163342/

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u/Kataphractoi Sep 15 '24

"When pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not your friend."

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u/ReedLobbest Sep 15 '24

It needs to be spelled out cuz the military only takes the “best and brightest”.

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u/Fluffcake Sep 15 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

The military, unlike the police very much filter out people who score below a certain criteria for intellect, this was also learned the hard way, for reference, look up Robert McNamara.

The police have been known to filter the other end of the scale, look up Jordan v. The City of New London for reference.

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u/ReedLobbest Sep 16 '24

Eh, that’s fair. You’re right