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Post by Niner Delta » Tue Apr 07, 2015 7:04 pm

Happened a year ago and the Army just released the incident report.
Seems they were trying to knock a round out of the tube and it went off......
The 155mm round exploded in the tube, 1 dead and 2 seriously wounded. I'm actually surprised
that it didn't kill the whole crew, guess the tube itself absorbed a lot of the blast.
It's bad enough to die in combat, but to die in training..........seems such a waste.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015 ... 630&rank=4
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Peace is that brief, quiet moment in history.......... when everybody stands around reloading.
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