Chinese Soldiers Almost Blown Away During Botched Grenade Practice
- Posted on December 25, 2011 at 6:41am by
Buck Sexton
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Two Chinese soldiers are just happy to be alive this Christmas after a very near miss on the grenade practice range.
The video, uploaded to youtube this week, shows what started as a standard grenade training exercise. Standing in a specially designed pit, the instructor and trainee prepare to toss a hand grenade over a wall. It is unclear from the video, but the trainee is likely throwing either a Chinese Type S 82-2 or 86-P fragmentation grenade.
Below you can see the two Chinese soldiers take their places for the drill:
The instructor appears to steady the recruit, and give him some last minute advice on proper techniques and procedures. As you will see shortly, it was not enough.
The trainee leans back, cocks his arm, and get ready to put some mustard behind the throw.
Unfortunately, he hurls a fastball directly into the dirt berm just above the sandbags, and a moment of panic ensues as the two Chinese soldiers scramble for cover.
The instructor rolls into the trench opposite the live grenade, but has to grab the trainee and pull him down alongside him seconds before the fuse ignites and sends shrapnel in all directions.
Boom! The grenade goes off on the other side of the trench, but neither soldier is injured. They crawl out just as the smoke starts to clear. The trainee may try to work on his aim next time, though.
The video gives you the full effect, and you can watch it here, courtesy of youtube:
(h/t mediaite)
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Comments (141)
Hickory
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 9:31amI saw the same thing in basice training over 50 years ago. One of our basic trainees froze and just stood there holding the pin in one hand and the grenade in the other. The Training Instructor knocked the grenade out of his hand and kicked it into a hole that was there just for that purpose. Needless to say, the Training Instructor gave that young man a lesson in verbal offense.
Report Post »the bamster
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 9:31amHeeeeenderson!!!!
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 9:41amthey practice these things in a bunker like this for this very reason.
the first time you put your hands a device that WILL kill you and anyone else with in 15 yards, should you make the slightest mistake, you get a little nervous.
Report Post »ZengaPA65
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 3:20pmWonder who they’re practicing to fight…
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 5:31pmAhh…the self-frag.
NOOBTASTIC!
Report Post »1776freedomofspeech
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 10:49pmJust another day at the grenade range in Communist China.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on December 26, 2011 at 12:46amOk, pull pin, throw grenade…over the sandbags you dolt! Man, any time you handle one of those, the thoughts that must go through your mind. M60′s were dangerous enough, can’t really imagine a frag, but I’d definatley get that bugger over the sandbags…good thing their not our guys!
Report Post »Jinglebob
Posted on December 26, 2011 at 11:06amThe instructor had his wits about him. Well done.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on December 26, 2011 at 11:55amBoth their careers are OVER. Re-education for both!
Report Post »Squ33
Posted on December 26, 2011 at 5:38pmCareful, those imported Jalapenos can be deadly!
Report Post »cgnick
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 6:41amWith over a billion in the Chinese army, it’s pretty evidint that they will take just about anybody. This video is hysterical!
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 2:12pmLeeeerooyy JENKINS! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCNJRfSZBU
Report Post »Yeah_Buddy
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 4:41pmReminds of me of the way Obummer is handling the economy.
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 9:29amMaybe some of you hard-core guys practiced air bursts with the real thing, I would be interested to know. I practiced them, but only with empty fused bodies that would emit a light poof.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 11:00amOne word……. PYLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! surpise, surprise, surprise……..
Report Post »capitalideals
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 11:34amI went through basic training in 1972. Our hand grenade exercise began with putting on a flak jacket. When our turn came, a drill sergeant grabbed us by the front of the jacket and slammed us up against a wall in a maze shaped trench. He then threw us down to another drill sgt, who did the same thing, then to another, until we had been slammed about 5 times. Then we ran behind a wall to await our turn, maybe one or two other guys were ahead of you. Then they screamed for you to run forward to an area that looked pretty close to the Chinese training area. One of the guys handed you a grenade and yelled THROW IT! Then we crouched behind the barricade, and then did it again. We didn’t have time to think about it!!! I looked behind me and my buddy was throwing, but in between his throws, one of the guys kicked him in the ass…..one of the funniest things I have ever seen!
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 2:23pmAir bursts with WP from a chopper doing 140 knots Which mean I din’t stick aruound for the bang :)
Report Post »shoeman12
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 11:07pmI just went through basic last year. We did a bunch of practice with “dummy” grenades, that is, a fuse but no explosive, but we tossed one live one. As soon as we threw it the cadre grabbed us and pulled us down to the ground with them.
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on December 26, 2011 at 7:40amHey RIGHTTHINKING The guy that threw the grenade rook rike rittle poof!
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on December 26, 2011 at 10:53amThat ‘Green Bean’ must’ve had butter applied to his fingers when he threw it….
Report Post »Jinglebob
Posted on December 27, 2011 at 11:47amIn my day, back in the Dark Ages, we practiced with training grenades for a few throws. To pass the training each had to throw a live one. Its was always sweaty palms time. The US throwing pits are or were constructed differently. Once in a great while, the story went, a trainee would **** the thrown, milk it etc. and the instructor had to react…fast. All in a days work. Many more mishaps went on at the rifle ranges as you might think.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 11:20am2Shoeman
The same thing happened to me in 1969.
Report Post »2ndAmdmt
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 9:25amLooked like a chinese fire-drill
Report Post »ktmrider1
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 9:24amconfusius say- he need *** slap
Report Post »HemiOwner
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 9:12amThat’s one luck Chinaman
Report Post »newspapertaxis
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 9:01am(1979 at Fort Knox) ” Pvt. Means, this Army no longer requires your services.“ ” Next.” Merry Christmas SFC Strickland!
Report Post »vires montesque vincimus
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 8:50amSaw something similar on the grenade range at Fort Benning. Soldier dropped grenade DI jumped over wall, reached over grabbed private by LBE yanked over wall,grenade exploded as the soles of his boots cleared the wall. This was in the good old days, so that private high crawled as we marched past 100 yds, then he would run past us for a 100 yds, repeated this for around 3 miles, back then if a range was 11 miles or under you walked.Later that evening you could hear him under the barracks digging a foxhole.Old harmony church ww2 barracks. Needless to say the private was flushed out with the other no go’s.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 9:02amI hear Chinese grenades are like everything else they make….full of lead….makes them hard to throw.
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 9:07amAh yes, went to services in Harmony Church. Good ol Sand Hill. Well we generally humped it to the range and back in 1991 as well. Now most of the soldiers are bhind a barrier with bomb proom glass to keep them safe. Only yhr recuit and the Drill Sargent are in the grenade pit.
Report Post »youguysready_letsroll
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 9:48am@VIRES, That’s awesome. I remember a fellow PVT showing up 5 minutes late to our final formation at basic after graduation. The drill segeant made him low crawl through a mud puddle in his class A’s….in front of his parents.
Report Post »ICRedifURBlue
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 7:57pmHad a lot of fun at Harmony Church……….first time I saw that name in years…..
Report Post »Laus Deo
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 8:30amTossing those little suckers is a thrill. I miss the Corps.
Report Post »youguysready_letsroll
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 8:45amWhen I tossed mine at basic at Ft. Leonardwood back in the day, there was a guy in front of me and one behind me to make sure I didn’t go nucklehead and drop the grenade and throw the pin. It was a rush. I prefer the M203 though.
Report Post »Recceman90
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 9:32amI remember back in my heyday, we had a knucklehead drop his….needless to say that DI was uber pissed…and started smoking shortly after! LOL
Report Post »Square Dancer
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 9:38amTossed my 2 at Ft. Polk, winter/spring 1972. Basic at E-1-5, AIT at Tigerland, A-2-3. Those baseballs were a hoot, but the Willie Pete was cool.
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 10:24amAs a Drill Sergeant at Fort Lost in the Woods in the state of Missery back in the ‘70’s I never had a trainee drop a pinapple thank God, as it would have been my job to toss his sorry behind over the “not so tall” barrier just behind us and use my body as a human shield atop his. It did happen though…
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 11:01pmYOUGUYSREADY_LETSROLL
Report Post »When I tossed my first one in basic at Ft. Leonardwood. I wanted to watch where it landed but the DI would have none that and pushed me down….
SgtB
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 8:26amI’m pretty sure that due to the lack of yelling and screaming (or in the case of a brutal communist military, beating and whipping) , that this was a training exercise demonstration. In the US this would be done with a dummy or practice grenade instead of a live grenade. That could have been the case here as well because a normal frag grenade that is used today is stuffed with c-4 and not gunpowder so their is no black smoke, just a really loud and fast explosion.
Maybe people who have never had to do anything like throw a grenade shouldn’t comment on stuff like this because alot of you sound ignorant as all get out.
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 8:38amWell I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night. Thanks for your 2 cents.
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 9:15amSgtB… “Maybe people who have never had to do anything like throw a grenade shouldn’t comment on stuff like this because alot of you sound ignorant as all get out. I’m pretty sure that… this was a training exercise demonstration. In the US this would be done with a dummy or practice grenade instead of a live grenade.”
Well youre right, some people do sound ignorant here. Recruits in the Army at least throw live grenades, from pits much like the one pictured. On other grenade ranges they throw dummies but on the the range like this one, we threw live grenades. Still got my pin ring.
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 10:47am> ARMED PATRIOT. Still have my original P-38 from BCT too, lol. At that time we were still getting K-Rations and C-Rations from WWII as our “meals ready to eat” with a cig for an after meal smoke, lol.
When out at the ranges we might even get LRP’s which were more current. Then there were the green eggs from the hot “mersion cans” for breakfast… sometimes.
Report Post »Bdizzle McHammerpants
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 10:48amTake your own advice. The m68 is packed with comp-b, not C4.
Report Post »UFOCPrez
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 4:39pmIt’s a grenade. You don‘t have to be a genius to put the pieces together whether you’ve thrown one or not. I guess we should stop commenting on race car accidents, plane accidents, etc? Lighten up Frances.
Report Post »Maverick11
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 9:16pmWhat Army are/were you in?
Part of the process is a live grenade, after the practice throws of dummy grenades the practice course, then comes the pit.
Of course, this may not be true outside of Combat Arms and Combat support.
Report Post »BrotherWill
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 8:20amHey there you go! Way to report on a video that has been circulating YouTube for over 10 years!
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 9:19amUploaded by AwesomeDopeBossMode on Dec 21, 2011
Report Post »wop6969
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 8:11amThose are special suicide granades made by the Muslims…..
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 8:47amHaha what, they go off the instant you pull the pin?
Report Post »Maverick11
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 9:27pmAs a rule, you can usually count on a 5 second grenade fuse to go off in no less than three seconds.
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on December 26, 2011 at 7:47amThat’ a suppository to a “good” muslim jihadist !
Report Post »whodunit
Posted on December 26, 2011 at 9:33pmTwo muslim fathers were talking about their children. One said “ it is amazing at how fast they blow up ”. Just had to throw that in :)
Report Post »LMW
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 8:07amIt just goes to show that we all are human and accidents do happen. I’m glad the Instructor and the trainee were allright. The Instructor really kept his cool. Chinese or not that is the man I would want protecting my back.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 7:47amYou can bet our commander in chief will be ordering loads is these grenades.
Report Post »shagstar
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 7:43amchinese or not,,that instructor impressed the hell outta me!!
Report Post »dyaeger92
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 8:02amI agree!!! The instructor showed a lot of cool!!!
Report Post »notreally
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 8:57amWhen I see stuff like that I wonder I’d have the B&%(s to do it. It was a split second reflex, pulling down his mate to safety. Amazing.
Report Post »Charles
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 10:54amIt was funny the way he yanked him down. He would of been fine where he was since there was no path for shrapnel to get to him with the grenade down in the trench. The trainee did exactly as he was trained in that he hit the ground flat. I read a story where a soldier threw a grenade in combat and for whatever reason it ended up on the ground about 15 feet away from him and a couple others he was with. They all flattened themselves on the ground as there was nothing to take cover behind. None of the shrapnel hit them. It tends to follow an upward angle from the surface it lands on so if you are relatively close but no too close flattening out on the ground can work to escape shrapnel. Wont do your eardrums any good though.
Report Post »Maverick11
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 9:25pmNot really
Uh, not really.
He was the pit NCO, He probably had to do anywhere from 30 to 50 of them that day.
I had to do it, last range I safetied on before I retired.
They sent me a Female soldier who at least cleared the wall, and put the grenade about five feet in front of the pit, I had to knock her down and lay on top of her, praying I was not about to get killed.
My heart rate settled about an hour later…..as we were doing the last firing (throwing?) order.
Guess who got to try and throw again with an “extra” grenade?
She got it about 4 feet in front of the position.
But the Pit NCO’? It was his job, but any NCO who had to be pit Seargent for someone they did not know, trust or feared could net get the Grenade out, felt a stab of sympathy with that video. .
Report Post »thop1960
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 7:28amI remember the first time I threw a live gernade, it’s kinda scary and easy to do something stupid. As in most things in life, the first time is the hardest. Knowing what it is like to be in those shoes, I can cut him some slack. He should be buying his instructor a beer or two for keeping him safe, even though that’s his job.
Report Post »RichNGadsden
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 7:37amLOL, I remember the drill sergeant looking to be scared crapless. Fortunately we had no events, but we had one huge guy throw two air bursts.
Report Post »singleparent
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 7:28amWho cares……..
Report Post »Treaty
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 8:14amI do. Great video.
Report Post »Bargis Tryhol
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 7:19amI’m sure off-camera recruit had the snot slapped out of him by his senior NCO
Report Post »grannyrecipe
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 7:14amLOL I like how the recruit immediately leaves…there was no question as to whether or not he would get a second throw. And to the Chinese, have them throw fake ones at first…not go blowy,blowy on you.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 8:32amProbably had to go change his underwear!
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 7:11amSaving private Wang.
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 7:51am@ Forrest Gump
Look’s like B O throwing out the first pitch on opening day!
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on December 26, 2011 at 7:51amSaving wang’s privates
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 6:58amWhat is Mandarin for “Hit the Deck?”
In any armed forces it usually is this:
Instructor – “Throw gernade so…”
Report Post »Recruit – “Oops…”
Instructor (Explicit series of impolite words used very descriptivly)
Both dive into trench.
Gernade goes off.
Instructor “Blast those gernade plans Obama gave to us!!!”
Recruit : “Sir this fragment says – Made in China?”
Instructor “Blast those Chinese for making such junk…oh…”
nzkiwi
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 7:05amNice one, Snow. Lol.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 7:18amThe instructor actually doesn’t seem to be that upset. You can almost hear him shouting “Next” as the video ends.Lol. This has made my whole night!
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 6:57amMy wife is Chinese and wanted to know why I suddenly burst out laughing. I dropped the page and said ” Oops, wrong button – damn it, I was just laughing at Jeff Dunham”. I am such a coward.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 7:03amI bet every driving instructor is currently having sypathy pangs for the grenade instructor.
Note to the Taiwanese: No worries, mates.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 8:44amNZKiwi — best wishes and a merry christmas, I heard of the quake that his ChristChurch again the other day; glad to hear – according to what I read – no one was hurt. That community has been through so much lately.
Report Post »jsjdjn
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 6:55amOur guys do the same thing during basic training! Hence the mote!!!!
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 6:51amThe name “Gomer” comes to mind.
Report Post »TwoLazy
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 6:49amI don’t know if the Chinese celebrate Christmas, but I’ll betcha this guy will remain a private and be assigned to peeling potatoes for the duration.
Report Post »docvet
Posted on December 26, 2011 at 3:01pmPeeling potatos would be a good job. He is probably going to be peeling rice grains, one at a time, until he learns attention to detail, like, THROW HE DAMN GRENADE FAR FAR AWAY, YOU STUPID &&#@ $*((&#^. Actually, like many have pointed out, it was not the first and not the last time this has happened and the instructor took it in stride (as soon as his hearing returned and he changed his underwear for the tenth time that day).
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