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You can fix stupid. You can't fix evil.
They were probably shooting 40 year old ammo.
Practice ammo is avialable for the 81mm mortar, why not for the 60?
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Blames Sequestration... what a douche.
I doubt it. The stuff is rotated out and fired up alot faster than small arms ammo.
I was a 60s guy and we had ammo so old an entire lot wouldn't even fire.
That son of a bitch should be hanged and quartered. His making such a statement leads me to believe he probably had the thing sabotaged for his own political purposes. I long for the day he and pelosi are set before a firing squad.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
This came as no surprise to me. These A-holes (including the President) have propagandized 20 dead children since 5 minutes after the story broke on the 12/14.
An 0341 I may or may not be best friends with said 99.9% sure its bullshit.
Mike
I just found out tonight at band practice that our guitarists son was about 250 yards from where this happened. I knew he was in training out west but I assumed it was Camp Pendleton. Rest in peace to those who died. May their loved ones find comfort and solace somehow
My lifelong friend from Norfolk was in this unit and was only a couple hundred feet away at the time. His best friend who he went through basic and a combat tour in Afghanistan with died with that mortar team.
The guy dropping the shell into the tube survived because he was still twisting his body away as the round cooked off in the tube. A large piece of shrapnel that would have killed him ended up lodged through his rifle that was slung across his back.
Yeah he mentioned specifically that the shrapnel that pierced the survivor's rifle was part of the mortar tube. I have no military experience so I really don't know how a malfunction would occur that could cause this.