Posted: 6/2/2013 12:32:24 PM EDT
At the request of my kids I have been going back through my old pictures and scanning and digitizing them. I found the following picture:
The picture was taken at the Camp Williams, Utah Demo Range in the mid to late 90's. I was acting Company SGM and had gone to the range to promote a couple of guys from one of the teams in the company. After the ceremony, they asked if the old guy could build something creative to blow up. Behold, the "'Drawer of Doom". The round things in the middle are quarter pound sticks of dynamite TNT, while the green blocks are C-4, with the white cable strings of det cord. It was non electrically primed after we got out on the range. It blew a hole the size of a large desk about 5 feet deep in the ground. A very satisfying loud noise. However, the day was later ruined when they were setting off shaped charges and one of them went off early and tipped the adjacent charge over. When it went off, think of a 300 foot roman candle going out into the cheat grass and sage brush of the range. Anyway, lets see other pics of operators and their loud noise makers. 
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This is what happens when you find a Cache of 82mm Mortars in Afghanistan
My picture, but, not my handiwork. I was just the security element for EOD while they were prepping. My platoon did find this Cache and moved all the rounds to this site. 
ETA: After Picture 
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That HAD to get 10/10! |
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That HAD to get 10/10! Yeah, it did pretty well. The pizza was awesome too!
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I'm sorry if I offended someone by requesting that "operators" post their pictures. I really meant anybody else that had pictures of loud noisemakers they were involved with.
In the interest of helping the guy feel better here is a website that will help him out. http://www.depend.com/guard-your-manhood#home |
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I'm sorry if I offended someone by requesting that "operators" post their pictures. I really meant anybody else that had pictures of loud noisemakers they were involved with. In the interest of helping the guy feel better here is a website that will help him out. http://www.depend.com/guard-your-manhood#home 
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My only dinner pic ever. Breakfast in Afghanistan. http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=1298 Freaking Politicians. 
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This pic is pretty cool. 
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I don't have a copy of it but a large color photo used to hang in our wall at work.
One of our (civilian) blasters climbed up on top of a hemispherical stack of 2,000 lbs of C-4 and smoked a cigarette (before the cap was inserted). This was R&D work back in the late 1960s or early 1970s simulating a nuke as I recall. (Visitors were shocked at the risk, but when ignited with a flame rather than detonated with a primary explosive, C-4 just burns.) |
| No explosives, but I do have a picture from when I was a Huey Crew Chief in Korea in '92. We got back very late from a field exercise and the armory wasn't open so we were given the ok to walk across the street to the barracks with 4 M60 door guns. Got a picture of them propped up on the floor in front of my bunk. |
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At the request of my kids I have been going back through my old pictures and scanning and digitizing them. I found the following picture: http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a292/18_Zulu/DrawerofDoom.jpg The picture was taken at the Camp Williams, Utah Demo Range in the mid to late 90's. I was acting Company SGM and had gone to the range to promote a couple of guys from one of the teams in the company. After the ceremony, they asked if the old guy could build something creative to blow up. Behold, the "'Drawer of Doom". The round things in the middle are quarter pound sticks of dynamite, while the green blocks are C-4, with the white cable strings of det cord. It was non electrically primed after we got out on the range. It blew a hole the size of a large desk about 5 feet deep in the ground. A very satisfying loud noise. However, the day was later ruined when they were setting off shaped charges and one of them went off early and tipped the adjacent charge over. When it went off, think of a 300 foot roman candle going out into the cheat grass and sage brush of the range. Anyway, lets see other pics of operators and their loud noise makers. They look like TNT to me. |
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My only dinner pic ever. Breakfast in Afghanistan. http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=1298 10/10 |
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At the request of my kids I have been going back through my old pictures and scanning and digitizing them. I found the following picture: http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a292/18_Zulu/DrawerofDoom.jpg The picture was taken at the Camp Williams, Utah Demo Range in the mid to late 90's. I was acting Company SGM and had gone to the range to promote a couple of guys from one of the teams in the company. After the ceremony, they asked if the old guy could build something creative to blow up. Behold, the "'Drawer of Doom". The round things in the middle are quarter pound sticks of dynamite, while the green blocks are C-4, with the white cable strings of det cord. It was non electrically primed after we got out on the range. It blew a hole the size of a large desk about 5 feet deep in the ground. A very satisfying loud noise. However, the day was later ruined when they were setting off shaped charges and one of them went off early and tipped the adjacent charge over. When it went off, think of a 300 foot roman candle going out into the cheat grass and sage brush of the range. Anyway, lets see other pics of operators and their loud noise makers. They look like TNT to me. You are correct. It was TNT, the passage of years have not improved an old guy's memory. |
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I don't have a copy of it but a large color photo used to hang in our wall at work. One of our (civilian) blasters climbed up on top of a hemispherical stack of 2,000 lbs of C-4 and smoked a cigarette (before the cap was inserted). This was R&D work back in the late 1960s or early 1970s simulating a nuke as I recall. (Visitors were shocked at the risk, but when ignited with a flame rather than detonated with a primary explosive, C-4 just burns.) Minor Scale? |
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I don't have a copy of it but a large color photo used to hang in our wall at work. One of our (civilian) blasters climbed up on top of a hemispherical stack of 2,000 lbs of C-4 and smoked a cigarette (before the cap was inserted). This was R&D work back in the late 1960s or early 1970s simulating a nuke as I recall. (Visitors were shocked at the risk, but when ignited with a flame rather than detonated with a primary explosive, C-4 just burns.) Minor Scale? Yeah. Or maybe it had to do with hardening of the MX missile silos. Simulated nuke hit. Definitely at White Sands. Another time, we were working at a Louisiana range (smaller test) and there happened to be an environmental guy working nearby on another project unbeknownst to our blaster.. The blaster yelled "FIRE IN THE HOLE!" and the environmental guy (not knowing what was coming) stood up to see the fire. He was lucky to get by with just gravel spray---but he was pissed at the blaster. |