Count the safety violations

[RetArmySgt]

I only know of one time when someone was hit at Ft jackson a while back(5 yrs maybe), think they were killed but don't remember, you know its live ammo from the tracers.

I went through Jackson in '04 and there was one earlier that year. That might be the one you're talking about. Instead of crawling out of the trench at the beginning like you're supposed to he climbed out and took a round through the face. They pointed out the keyhole in the back wall of the trench where it hit after going through his face.

We had a guy in my basic that threw the pin and dropped the grenade during the live grenade throw day. DS took shrapnel when he pulled the pvt to the back of the pit to save him.

 

[M. Sage]

He was just following instructions!

Instructor: "Ok, pull the pin."

Student: "Now what?"

Instructor: "Throw it!"

Student: "Ok!"

 

[Younggun]

I went through Jackson in '04 and there was one earlier that year. That might be the one you're talking about. Instead of crawling out of the trench at the beginning like you're supposed to he climbed out and took a round through the face. They pointed out the keyhole in the back wall of the trench where it hit after going through his face.

We had a guy in my basic that threw the pin and dropped the grenade during the live grenade throw day. DS took shrapnel when he pulled the pvt to the back of the pit to save him.

Probably the one I'm thinkin about.

 

[Jakashh]

So why do they use live ammo instead of blanks?

 

[Younggun]

My guess is they wanted us to be able to think about an objective with bullets flying over our heads, from what i remember(almost ten yrs ago) you would have to actually stand up to get hit, i was more worried about getting scratched up by the wire than getting up to high and catching a bullet. It was pretty effective training, between mg fire, flares, explosions from something probably a flashbang or something, not really sure, hard to get much more realistic without aiming at us.

 

[M. Sage]

So why do they use live ammo instead of blanks?

Because you can hear the bullets going overhead. They're supersonic and all have their own little sonic boom cracking at you.

 

[jeepinbanditrider]

Yup we get to hear them every year at the annual rifle qual. We have to pull "butts" and you get to hear crack crack crack all day long.