I was up close and personal with several "accidents" in Vietnam, first was on a mine clearing operation, a grunt security squad was on our left flank, one was carrying his rifle like a squirrel hunter, it went off and hit the searchlight between the tank commander and me. Second time a M79 dude slipped in the mud climbing up on a rice paddy dike, it went off and hit a SSG in the hip, didn't explode but broke the guy's leg. Third time we set up in the dark in the woods, heard movement, one of McNamara's 100,000 threw a grendae, it hit a bamboo thicket and bounced back, two wounded. Add the slam fires, grenades pulled off LBE, etc. You could get hurt.
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