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Bannerman
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Hi Everyone,
Has anyone here worked as a Conducting Officer or Supervising NCO on a hand grenade throwing range and who may therefore be able to answer a few questions for me? My experiences were limited to being a thrower; out of the shelter, into the priming bay, into the throwing bay, two L2's over the wall and then away to the assualt course.
We know that when thrown, the grenade goes one way, the striker lever another and all you should be left with is a split pin and ring. I recall pins and rings were retained by the thrower and attached to combat jacket zip fastener handles in order to render the wearer "macho". But whatever became of the striker levers? Did/do they survive the explosions and if they did, were they collected up for re-use like spent cases and disintegrating link on a small arms range?
I visited a recently de-commissioned throwing range close to where I live and found an L2 lever. It was mangled, but this could easily be caused by it being trodden on. If levers were returned for re-use, could this then be another reason for many of the Mills grenades we see today having levers by manufacturers different to those producing the other components?
Bruno
Has anyone here worked as a Conducting Officer or Supervising NCO on a hand grenade throwing range and who may therefore be able to answer a few questions for me? My experiences were limited to being a thrower; out of the shelter, into the priming bay, into the throwing bay, two L2's over the wall and then away to the assualt course.
We know that when thrown, the grenade goes one way, the striker lever another and all you should be left with is a split pin and ring. I recall pins and rings were retained by the thrower and attached to combat jacket zip fastener handles in order to render the wearer "macho". But whatever became of the striker levers? Did/do they survive the explosions and if they did, were they collected up for re-use like spent cases and disintegrating link on a small arms range?
I visited a recently de-commissioned throwing range close to where I live and found an L2 lever. It was mangled, but this could easily be caused by it being trodden on. If levers were returned for re-use, could this then be another reason for many of the Mills grenades we see today having levers by manufacturers different to those producing the other components?
Bruno