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08-29-2021, 06:34 AM | #1 |
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The Boobytrap Recognition Manuals 1, 2 & 3
I love this Forum, John Dunkle's Luger Forums.
A brilliant concept designed to bring together a brilliant collection of collectors. But it's not just about Luger's ... Oh no ... it's much much more. The Forums main resource is Knowledge, which is what makes this site so important to us all. Thanks John you are truly loved. In that spirit I wish to share 3 interesting Volumes of Boobytrap Recognition by D.W. Lynn. Copyright © Darryl W. Lynn 2019 Email dwlynn@shaw.ca This is a free publication, not to be sold. If used as a reference in other publications credit should be given in the bibliography. Without further ado: The Boobytrap Recognition Manual Volume 1 - Australian and British http://tgrm.foxed.ca/boobytraps/tbrm%201.pdf The Boobytrap Recognition Manual Volume 2 - American http://tgrm.foxed.ca/boobytraps/TBRM%202.pdf The Boobytrap Recognition Manual Volume 3 - The F1/F1A1 Combination Switch and its variants. http://tgrm.foxed.ca/boobytraps/tbrm%203.pdf ENJOY
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My favorite booklet from the military which I got when preparing to 'visit' Vietnam is "Escape and Evasion".
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08-29-2021, 12:26 PM | #3 |
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Mr Lynn left out the cruelest most insidious trap of all...
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The average GI never had the opportunity, time or desire to see or read most any of this stuff.
Kind of feelgood eyewash put together by well meaning individuals bent on justifying their assignments. Most every training area at every level had some sort of display or interactive setup of known booby traps or destructive devices. Drills were often held handling and examining the stuff and methods of deploying them. Lots more effective for the average "Consumer" than dull reading, diagrams, and suppositions. Truth told, the average grunt would have had limited cognitive abilities in that area. In actual training, hands on is hard to beat and leaves the best impression. |
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I seriously doubt that any of those devices ever successfully trapped a booby.
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Sad to have to say, but it's just the truth. Some border crossers launched out of our camp occasionally and their gunships established a fuel and ammo dump on our turn around pad. Fuel and ammo right together. Mortar hit the fuel and it blazed up pretty good, tossing 55 gal drums high in the air. Great display til it reached the ammo. Linked 40mm stuff and then to their 2.5 and 3.5 inch rockets. Bigger show. lots of explosions. The rockets would pinwheel all over the place and explode on impact. Went to the underground team house at that point. Next day they sent out some EOD guys to clean up the mess. One guy was yanking a rocket embedded a foot or two in the ground and got away with it. Another walked up and kicked a dud 40mm about 10 feet from where I was. It went off and took most of his foot. He was screaming about his foot and I was screaming about his stupid self almost getting me kilt. I spent a week in ICU at 3rd field hospital and next to me were 4 or 5 guys bandaged head to toe. One died and the others were blind and one missing his hands. One had been fooling with a grenade and dropped it among them. Glad to get out of there. Just 2 instances that stand out. Just saying anything is possible where young troops are involved. Youth, vigor, carelessness, whatever. The stories will never end where that is involved. |
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