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Apart from prepping devices for Ex Demon Beacon, i've never had an opportunity myself but have any of you ATs past and present had a little jest with some low explosives?

While serving at 3 BAD Bracht, I do vaguely recall being concerned about the possibility of one of the ATs 'wiring up' my door, but for the most part I was too pissed to know or care.

Shiny

Originally Posted by Arrse_onist

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Apart from prepping devices for Ex Demon Beacon, i've never had an opportunity myself but have any of you ATs past and present had a little jest with some low explosives?

I 'heard of' an ISFE/thundy/bag of flower combo....just enough to give a little wake up.

Sim Exp L20A1's are pretty tame but still not worth the risk of not following the safety distances/hurting anyone IMO.

When I was a young L/Cpl, I did a week Dems course followed by a 1 week Minewarfare/booby trap course in Hameln

This was way, way back...can only remember one of the staff Instructors being a Irishman with glasses (..not alot of help there then?).

It was back in the days when each Rifle Coy had two Nco's trained up on Basic Dems and MW....very basic in my case. So me and one other got sent up to CETC. Must have been that we weren't orbated for AP's at the time?

The Dems course was ace and we spent a lot of time hanging off of bridges with Hayricks in one arm, trying not to fall into the river or drop them onto passing barges.

Got me further into the AP role and courses, including doing the DSO course...one of the best things ever, fan - fecking - tastic time had at Brompton.

The course had students from the REME, Pathfinders and even 'Them'. Someone will remember the course OC. A tall, moustached Canadian. Think that there may even have been some Cav on it?

On that very first course. I learned to respect the power of the devious mind + PE/ANFO type mix. The Instructor would rig up all kinds of shite while we were off on a NAAFI break.

Feck me, you couldn't move a chair, turn the page of a newspaper, turn on a light without something going 'pop'.

I've heard of others playing around and people getting hurt.....not worth it in any situation.

Having to find and clear blinds on a LAW range was bad enough for me, thank you very much, although setting up mahoosive and complex BATSIMS, and using Dems pits where there was no limit to the charges used, never bothered me at all.

I know that it's nothing compared to what the RE's have done. One fella on my DSO Course was involved with that big bang is Bosnia..can't remember the figures but he said that it was the biggest man made Expl since the War?

No doubt there have been a few other biggies re the current conflict.



Munitions. Not worth fecking about with anything that could hurt those it isn't meant to.

I remember the training film about explosives and the missuse off, showed some examples of the emperors finest work! Throwing det cord into a fire springs to mind.

Originally Posted by Tinman74

I remember the training film about explosives and the missuse off, showed some examples of the emperors finest work! Throwing det cord into a fire springs to mind.

Safety fuse

Originally Posted by Nato Standard123

Safety fuse

No it was detcord, the lesson being that the authorised disposal was to cut it into 1m lengths, the film saw a roll thrown onto the fire whole which subsequently burnt to detonation, it was based on a real event.

Watched someone test burn fuze instantaneous, thinking it was safety fuse.

He was somewhat shaken....

We had a bonfire at Kineton in the early 90's that someone, IIRC from A Coy, thought would be a good idea to prop up with a huge amount of bag charges/propellant. We all stood back while the bonfire was ceremoniously lit. It caught, then the young flames licked at the Kindle as it tried to survive the wind, then . . .

Whoosh!, a sudden inferno the intensity I've not felt before. The flames lept triple the height of the bonfire, the heat made everyone step back several times, if they valued their eyebrows, and then almost as quick as it started, it ended.

The bonfire was reduced from a repectful height and girth to a smoldering heap of embers and flame to a fraction of it's original size within a minute or so.

How we all laughed as the MOD fire service had kittens and there were some red faces about, and not because of the towering inferno

Anyone around in '92 to witness that one?

Originally Posted by Trollage

No it was detcord, the lesson being that the authorised disposal was to cut it into 1m lengths, the film saw a roll thrown onto the fire whole which subsequently burnt to detonation, it was based on a real event.

Also vaguely remember some biff hitting a fuse gripped in a vice?

Someone in 321 thought it would be fun to put an outdoor sound unit in a toilet bowl, not taking into account bubble pulse.

It didn't survive the 8 grains of black powder.