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Read on military.com that the video was from China, FWIW.

Good.

They are training women for combat too; kinda evens the playing field.

definitely not the trainer's first rodeo - lucky for her.

Friends went through in '82 and it was closed, I think I went through in '83. I was never given a reason, my friends were told it was closed due to too many unexploded grenades downrange. Supposedly had a couple instances where they threw a live one and it set off another.

I'll admit I barely passed the freaking grenade test. Distance was fine, but just about every one I threw seemed to take a wild bounce left or right and rolled to the edge or out of the target zone. Screw the hand grenades, give me a M203.. could hit anything with that wonderful thing.

It's not. Seen that before. If I recall, it's S.Korea.

Happened again in early '73 @ Leonard Wood.

Fort Jackson in 1966 during basic I saw a recruit drop one and immediately reach down, pick it up and throw it over the wall. The trainers were so impressed with his concentration they let him throw a few more.

The rest of us only got one throw.

The other thing I remember about that day was our platoon sergeant suggested we lift a few practice grenades for the company to practice with in our company area. He was a bit taken back when folks from the platoon had scarfed up about thirty of them. Just moving Uncle Sam's equipment from one area to another.

I threw live grenades at Leonard Wood in the mid-80's.

I was thinking the same thing. Nowhere near enough safety gear on anyone to be in our military...

Summer of '69 at Fort Lewis we spent a whole morning throwing practice grenades--same weight just no charge. You took turns--one guy throwing--one guy watching where it landed and calling out distance in meters. I think my platoons average was about 40 meters--until after chow we threw a live one--average distance was about 55 meters.

We had practice grenades that held a "charge" about like an M80 at Ft Benning. We had to hold one in our hand when it went off (think solid steel ball with a cylindrical hole through it that the "charge", fuse, etc. screwed into). Just keep your hand away from the bottom and all was well! Spent a day crawling all around throwing them into "tunnels", foxholes, etc. I know we threw a live one too but remember the "dummies" more than the real one 'cause we probably threw 50-60 of those one day.

We did the same thing at Ft Knox in 86 (grenade qualification).
One of the guys earned the nick name John Wayne after he jumped on one the training grenades that one of the instructors tossed into a group of us standing around waiting our turn (all the rest of us hit the ground with boots toward the grenade).

No way it's Camp Pendelton. They would not be throwing grenades without Kevlar and protective gear on. Hell, even when I threw grenades at Paris Island 35 years ago we wore our helmets.

Practice grenades over here were a solid rubber body into which you screwed a regular fuse/denonator assembly..Suspect they didn't trust us throwing lumps of steel at each other even if they were inert!