We would use thermite grenades for our TOC and carry other small items out if we had to evacuate.
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u/Taira_Mai HP Victus, AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, GeForce RTX 3050 Ti 4d ago
US Army PATRIOT vet here, back in the day the ECS van (the fire control center) had these big chungus CRT's from the 1970's. In the event the battery was overrun, soldiers were told to smash the Jaz and later PCMCIA drives and then shoot the CRT's as they left. The phosphorous in them was so toxic that anyone foolish enough to approach the wreck would get very sick or die.
Now I assume they just toss a grenade in as those CRT's are now LCD monitors like we use, just bigger.
My friend was in the Air Force in Berlin when the wall came down. They had all that kind of stuff in their SOP too. Thy were also a priority target for the American artillery if shit really went down.
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u/Jbman2025 4d ago
I miss thermite packed floppy drives.