Seen 'em cage and shred SAWs, 240's, M16's, M4's --you name it. It's the one place you can't go at DRMS/DRMO. "Death row".
How 'bout them spendexes? Once blew up damn near a ton of C4, det cord and shock tube all at once (I know I had 40lbs. in my pockets alone, more in a ruck and a spool of det cord from shoulder to waist) and lots of guys carried that down to the shot pit. A whole pallet of shock tube. I swear, we made a mushroom could and shockwave that got my dick hard a mile away and showered me with shit, but watching a giant, wide 10 or 15 foot telephone pole/tree trunk spin in the air for what seemed a full minute: priceless. Those engineers had SO MUCH SHIT that it took help from us, an infantry platoon, to blow it all up. Sure, we practiced breaching, cutting, etc., but after only a few hours it was time to rig the big boy.
Another platoon got tasked with blowing up that year's worth of hand grenades, which I don't think we used at all that year. Yeah, they couldn't feed themselves for three days their arms were so tired. Another platoon shot off millions of dollars worth of Javelins and AT4's, another countless rounds of 40mm through Mk19's, all this in one day, and then we spent a good week shooting off pallet after pallet of rifle, machinegun and 203 ammo.
Fucking bullshit. We could have used that in training but instead we blow it all up in one week just so we can order that much or more next year. Tax dollars at work! And I bet nothing has changed...
