Just bought a new scanner and thought I would share some pics!
My Team Leader and I blew up a M113 (brand new bombing target), It was getting dark,we had 20 lbs. of C-4 left over and really didn't want to hassle with putting the crap back in our Bunker. This particular lot of C-4 needed to be disposed anyways due to a bulletin we got about this lot going bad, We figured we could put it to good use!!!!
Coincidently we had just gotten new remote firing devices and we figured to break them in. We had F'ing problems with the thing and it was dark (Not supposed to do night ops
), IIRC the damn thing didn't work (reciever decided to die) and the 20 minutes of time I gave on the time fuse detonated the shot. We were about 100 meters away (a little close, ya think
) behind a nice berm when the buttoned up M113 went up, we didn't know it was full of fuel either until the detonation. We looked in awe at the HUGE ASS FIREBALL
until frag started wizzing by (trust me, we became one with the ground)! We hear this Big WAH WAH (It was the whole top slab of the M113 going end-over-end), mind you its dark and can't see were this object is going, PUCKER FACTOR 10!!!
Here is the M113 before - we were scouting it out !
Here are a couple of pics the next day showing the Carnage !!!
Here I am standing next to my handywork!!!
Here is a pick of a ClusterBomb dispenser out on Leach Lake, FT. Irwin (It was 130+ degrees that day there too!!)
Here is what that dispenser contains, Rockeyes in a very pissed off state!!!
Here is a Destruct being set up at EOD school, Eglin AFB!
Not an EOD pic but this is from the USS Barb at the Arizona Memorial in Hawaii!!!