Hi Dev
Interesting line you have there about an AC apprentice firing the BAP and throwing the grenade. We fired the FN and GPMG and a few threw the old Arges 69 grenade. When the Quarter was asked why only a few were going to throw, his reply was a classic:" there's only a bleedin' few of them left and,anyway, only REAL soldiers deserve to throw grenades,not yew-iz!". So we got to throw hollowed-out Mills bombs instead. Incidentally, one Apprentice, poised for the throw in the concrete trench, pulled the pin and promptly dropped the live grenade. The late Sgt. Joey Byrne, standing alongside the errant thrower, was seen to carry out a vertical launch out of the trench,like a space rocket and throw himself flat. The apprentice scrambled out and dived away as the bomb went off. After the smoke had cleared, Joey launched into an Alex Ferguson-style "hairdryer" on the luckless apprento, much to everyone else's delight. So there's good reason to keep AC people away from REAL weapons!! Incidentally, I got to fire the BAP and Gustav in the FCA as they had a practise in our unit of allowing the older three-stars to fire off the last of the 9mm rounds after the usual suspects had fired their course.
regards
GttC
Interesting line you have there about an AC apprentice firing the BAP and throwing the grenade. We fired the FN and GPMG and a few threw the old Arges 69 grenade. When the Quarter was asked why only a few were going to throw, his reply was a classic:" there's only a bleedin' few of them left and,anyway, only REAL soldiers deserve to throw grenades,not yew-iz!". So we got to throw hollowed-out Mills bombs instead. Incidentally, one Apprentice, poised for the throw in the concrete trench, pulled the pin and promptly dropped the live grenade. The late Sgt. Joey Byrne, standing alongside the errant thrower, was seen to carry out a vertical launch out of the trench,like a space rocket and throw himself flat. The apprentice scrambled out and dived away as the bomb went off. After the smoke had cleared, Joey launched into an Alex Ferguson-style "hairdryer" on the luckless apprento, much to everyone else's delight. So there's good reason to keep AC people away from REAL weapons!! Incidentally, I got to fire the BAP and Gustav in the FCA as they had a practise in our unit of allowing the older three-stars to fire off the last of the 9mm rounds after the usual suspects had fired their course.
regards
GttC
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