Chinese Grenade Training

[zipmartin]

Laugh away, I have no clue how to throw one as I never have, I would've thought just like throwing a baseball. Is the lobbing motion correct?

Being an old Navy airedale, I've never had to learn how to throw one. But as a kid, I watched Vic Morrow and Rick Jason throw many on the TV series "Combat", and they always used the straight-arm, over-hand lob.

 

[helolumpy]

This overhand method seemed to work well...

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=/&gl=US#/watch?v=wtpUTJci77s

 

[RobLyman]

IOTV with the shoulder/arm attachments can be REAL hard to throw in. Without the arm attachments, it isn't as bad. I did it both with IOTV and with my Air Warrior armor. The long throw isn't so bad. The finess toss into a bunker slit is much harder with all of the gear on. Overhand, underhand, side arm...what ever works for you. We practiced with the training grenades...essentially a real frag grenade with only an M80 size charge and holes in the casing to let the charge blast out.

 

[helolumpy]

This overhand method seemed to work well...

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=/&gl=US#/watch?v=wtpUTJci77s

of this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtpUTJci77s

 

[NavAir42]

…and that Chinese student runs back to formation to clean his trousers and tell his bros what just happened while that instructor sets the pit up for the next grenade toss as training continues.

US Marines on the other hand ->

Training is halted and multiple investigations are immediately started. The range control officer & SNCOIC as well as the company commander (who happened to be on two weeks baby leave during the incident) are all fired, anybody in the chain of command up to O-5 with a “commander” or “Sgt” in their billet description or rank are given shitty FITREPS and the grenade-throwing instructors are all NJP'd because they didn’t go “exactly by the reference material”.

TECOM immediately begins a new MarineNet course called “Global War on Error – Grenade Throwing” which discusses how to properly toss a grenade and all MOS’s & ranks O-5 and below are required to complete it annually, with a pass/fail multiple choice test given at the end of the course.

A couple weeks and numerous "man hours" are spent putting together “some slides” on the lessons learned from the grenade tossing mishap “for the boss” turns into a 58-slide PowerPoint brief and all commanders will have to incorporate it into the all-hands safety brief given each 72 & 96 as well as during the multiple safety stand-downs throughout the year.

Finally, HQMC will release an ALMAR stating all Marines must sign a statement of understanding on the proper procedures of grenade tossing before tossing a grenade and their OIC must sign a statement of understanding stating that that Marine has signed the statement of understanding on the proper procedure of grenade tossing before tossing the grenade.

Training can now continue...

Sidenote question - anybody know if the MCRD's are throwing grenades anymore? I know they had stopped for awhile. Talking about a shitty gig...those drill instructors who have to walk into the pit with a recruit holding a live grenade.

I always imagined the remedial training video would look something like this...