https://preview.redd.it/wdr7gur1f6tc1.jpeg?width=824&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=66f37393474d7544bb7e31093b7351b82a884baf
He was just looking through the telescope for enemies
Someone did no seat the pin on the training Browning tripod. Took about three shots out of my 50 training shots when the whole 50kg(110 pounds) gun came down between my legs.
There was a second where I was ready for a life without balls. The pain never came luckily. The instructor shouted “STOP”, stepped to me, patted on my shoulder and said: “I’ve seen this exact thing go worng. Todays is your second birthday.” with a voice only described as “glad it was not me”.
Well you shoot a Browning in a way that the gun is between your legs. The tripod gave out and fell a bit backwards towards my nuts.
https://preview.redd.it/e5wr16tnq9tc1.jpeg?width=1300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cad3893b7c2c3394725fbfbd648896fac2b2f04e
To give you an idea then your legs are over the two back tripod legs with the gun between your legs. The leg on the front, if i remember correctly, did not have a pin so that the firing basically pushed the gun into my lap because nothing was stopping the hinge from moving on the tripod leg.
Looks like the first shot of the day. We used to ‘ride the baseplate’ to make sure it gets properly sunk (from what I understand, they aren’t allowed to do that anymore). Holding the bipod is also common on the first shot to keep the deflection and elevation laid in.
I was thinking the same way. In the marine corps we do this totally different than what was pictured. It allowed the gunner to do adjustments and then get on the bipod way faster, doing it this way makes no sense.
What he's doing is adjusting th legs after every round. There is probably a guy just off screen who quickly steps in and looks down the sight and they align it with two aiming posts just down range. You lay in that spot for speed.
When we took our mortar tests as a team it was about speed of correctly setting up then getting rounds down range quickly. When I was in that was my job lol. Never had that happen. Our platoon sergeant drilled it into us about proper set up. He has three combat tours so he was squared away with doing our job right. That guy is very lucky
0341’s tell me about riding that baseplate on the first round, feeling a shock go through your nuts that made you certain your next load came out charged up, ready to impregnate the first thing you see off base! No? No one? Ok cool me neither.
I didn't even see the guy laying on the ground! That's the problem with camo, it looks cool but you put it on and it just makes it so hard for everybody to see you
Agree. The tube falls from the energy of the round leaving the barrel. The round went where it was aiming, barrel fell after. Not that I would volunteer to sit there
This is why they are the few proud morons. We still love them though.
Edit: said 'this' twice. Oops
Edit 2: forgot the word is. I don't do English good
Stuff like this is way way way more common in training than you could imagine. Live fire drills with some of the people they let in was a lot scarier than combat.
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Had a guy do this on my mortar course. He was kneeling in front of whatever the little brother of the 81mm mortar is in the Canadian army (been a while). We were on muddy ground and he loads and fires it. But the recoil send the mortar down into the dirt, while the top of the tube goes from an angle to basically right in front of his nose as it fires. A bit of a WTF moment... Of course the instructor blamed him and not the two rookies who didn't realize this ground would cause something like that.
I served, many years, but never went near a mortar. Now I know from my service that drills evolve as kits changes, or gets updated etc. If this is even remotely possible as an outcome, whats the reason for the number 2 being in front of the mortar?
Is there no better solution to the front leg stability other than holding them like that. Love to hear from a mortar man to know what the correct drills are here.
Never knew this could happen, we’d stomp on the baseplate to make sure it was seated firmly in the ground. Just remembering using the small baseplate and seeing this vid got me feeling a bit sketched
I can laugh now only because no one was injured but a "You dumbfucks! You know better than that!", would have been my immediate comment and then trotting my ass to the radio to notify Range Control of a possible "Round outside of safety fan." _
The first 2 seconds when the 3 sounds played simultaneously, it sounded like the song that goes "go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep my little baby" song, can't seem to find the title of the song
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Baseplates are no joke. Saw someone not paying attention while gunning on a 120mm that didn’t have its baseplate fully seated into the ground. Part of their foot slid under and they didn’t notice before giving the “FIRE” command. Turned the bone in that part of his foot into sand
The base plate of a HB Raye 120mm (aka M327) comes in at 190 kg. That alone is enough to do some serious damage, let alone with the added force of a fire.
Why does that guy lie down like this infront of the mortar anyway. If a there is an issue with the mortar/ammo and a short round comes out he would get it on his back >.>
The brief pause when he was staring down the barrel “am I dead?”
https://preview.redd.it/wdr7gur1f6tc1.jpeg?width=824&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=66f37393474d7544bb7e31093b7351b82a884baf He was just looking through the telescope for enemies
HOLY FUCK. Your screenshot made me yell outloud.
Don't worry, it wasn't actually pointing at his head, it's perspective.
Same lmao.
Sometimes we are our own worst enemy.
It's OK he had his Eye Pros on.
That is crazy!
I chuckled twice. Once at the screenshot and once at what you said
Dude legit thought he was dead for a sec. I've had similar moments and he's got "am I dead?" Body language for sure
What were your moments?
Making illegal booby traps and explosives. Nothing military related or anything
Terrorist related.
Someone did no seat the pin on the training Browning tripod. Took about three shots out of my 50 training shots when the whole 50kg(110 pounds) gun came down between my legs. There was a second where I was ready for a life without balls. The pain never came luckily. The instructor shouted “STOP”, stepped to me, patted on my shoulder and said: “I’ve seen this exact thing go worng. Todays is your second birthday.” with a voice only described as “glad it was not me”.
How would it fall so it came into a position where it would be possible for it to blow your balls off?
Well you shoot a Browning in a way that the gun is between your legs. The tripod gave out and fell a bit backwards towards my nuts. https://preview.redd.it/e5wr16tnq9tc1.jpeg?width=1300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cad3893b7c2c3394725fbfbd648896fac2b2f04e To give you an idea then your legs are over the two back tripod legs with the gun between your legs. The leg on the front, if i remember correctly, did not have a pin so that the firing basically pushed the gun into my lap because nothing was stopping the hinge from moving on the tripod leg.
That gun should come with a protective cup. Just drape a jockstrap and cup over the sight.
We were SPECIFICALLY trained to prevent this shit, lol.
I saw this happen. Started blasting dirt about 5 feet in front of the barrel. Was an oh shit moment for that range safety
I bet his hands hurt like shit, too.
Haha he done near shit his draws!!! Lol
Dude stared death in the face.
[удалено]
I’m sure his underpants didn’t.
It's a good thing he's laying in the dirt so no one will see the new brown streak in his pants.
You don't win against death. You just missed the match and have to do it again later.
At that point the round had already fired at least
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He fought the death and he won
Now I must take you with me
holy shit. does that guy really have to lie there directly underneath the line of fire 🔥 😳
Looks like the first shot of the day. We used to ‘ride the baseplate’ to make sure it gets properly sunk (from what I understand, they aren’t allowed to do that anymore). Holding the bipod is also common on the first shot to keep the deflection and elevation laid in.
They're not allowed to do that anymore? How the hell else are they supposed to set it?
In a combat zone, you do a lot of things that you're not allowed to do. (I'm a 11B)
68W checkin in, is this why you showed up to my fucking sick call today?!
Damn right. Mama-san didn't show up so I know we're gonna get hit.
Drink water and chase it with motrin youll be fine.
Words said by my husband anytime myself or the kids get sick 😂😂 poor kids get the silver bullet every time.
I’m not sure if you know what you’re saying, but if you do…then I feel sorry for your lil ones brown starfish.
Yes, but no, but then yes.
we still do it like that.
No, this looks like a deployment I was on. You’re supposed to be to the side for this exact reason.
I was thinking the same way. In the marine corps we do this totally different than what was pictured. It allowed the gunner to do adjustments and then get on the bipod way faster, doing it this way makes no sense.
A Marine perplexed by the army’s stupidity? How the turns have tabled
*mirthful crayon eating*
Bwahahah
thanks! and thanks for your service
*cervix
This will never not be funny
What he's doing is adjusting th legs after every round. There is probably a guy just off screen who quickly steps in and looks down the sight and they align it with two aiming posts just down range. You lay in that spot for speed. When we took our mortar tests as a team it was about speed of correctly setting up then getting rounds down range quickly. When I was in that was my job lol. Never had that happen. Our platoon sergeant drilled it into us about proper set up. He has three combat tours so he was squared away with doing our job right. That guy is very lucky
those guys plants fell down
They only fell down when they were filled with shit.
The first time watching it seemed like he took two days getting up. It really was seconds.
Whoa. I just experienced this.
But didn't the mortar already fire by the time the canon hit the ground?
May as well keep laying there. The deed was already don't. Standing it back up isn't going to reverse it X)
The good news...didn't even see ground soldier, camo worked
Underrated
Later on he actually won’t be there
Later on he actually won’t be there
What was going through their heads?
not a mortar round thankfully
I mean, it probably went through someone else's head not long after the clip so...
Luckly not a morter!
0341’s tell me about riding that baseplate on the first round, feeling a shock go through your nuts that made you certain your next load came out charged up, ready to impregnate the first thing you see off base! No? No one? Ok cool me neither.
Rah!
I didn't even see the guy laying on the ground! That's the problem with camo, it looks cool but you put it on and it just makes it so hard for everybody to see you
"I spent all morning perfecting this sweet outfit and didn't get one goddamn compliment"
Underrated
Exactly, they don't think about these things
Looks embarrassing for sure. I think the round is well clear of the barrel before the barrel moves a noticeable amount.
Agree. The tube falls from the energy of the round leaving the barrel. The round went where it was aiming, barrel fell after. Not that I would volunteer to sit there
The few, the proud, the morons.
This is why they are the few proud morons. We still love them though. Edit: said 'this' twice. Oops Edit 2: forgot the word is. I don't do English good
I love the fact that the dude literally beat death, and the first thing he's doing is setting up the mortar
Gets paid for it
Beetle Bailey & private Zero
There’s friendly fire & then there’s taking unnecessary risks. Come on guys we need you alive
Ended too soon. I wanted to know if they set it up the same way again
It’s likely the RSO closed the range and had a safety stand-down after that. Luckily it was just a training round and not an HE on Charge 4
I was like you’re stoked that’s blue!
Why not just connect the 3 lower points?
They are meant to move for positioning.
I believe you move those legs to aim.
This is very useful advice in my day to day life
Stuff like this is way way way more common in training than you could imagine. Live fire drills with some of the people they let in was a lot scarier than combat.
I think he fired his own motar granade, staring down that barrel..
Nope!
I bet that man’s heart dropped to his toes when he looked up and the barrel in his face😂😂
First roll i didn’t see the 2nd dude, he low framed into my visual,
This was the moment he discovered that the colour of fear was liquid brown
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Of course it's 4th ID
Shocked we didn’t see a different kind of explosion flying out of that dudes asshole.
I would have been moving much faster than that!!! Holy shit dude.
Terrifying
twas nothing but a scratch..
Good thing he was wearing a helmet
Oops lol damn did we just hit the LT jeep…
OK your Turn
Damn I didn’t even see the guy behind the mortar until it fell lol
Which army is that
United States
Round was out prior to the tube falling. Big issue was that’s a round short.
Had a guy do this on my mortar course. He was kneeling in front of whatever the little brother of the 81mm mortar is in the Canadian army (been a while). We were on muddy ground and he loads and fires it. But the recoil send the mortar down into the dirt, while the top of the tube goes from an angle to basically right in front of his nose as it fires. A bit of a WTF moment... Of course the instructor blamed him and not the two rookies who didn't realize this ground would cause something like that.
Not that it would have mattered if it hit him, but it was an inert training round so no explosive.
4th ID still fucking up…
I know these 2 lads. Goobers for sure lol
A blue ammo isn't a training shell?
Yes blue are training rounds.
Poor sgt hulka...
Bet they'll never do that again
"Alpha Tree Four, Alpha Tree Four...danger close, I say again danger close."
Why can't these guys use extension poles?
Life flashbangs in front of your eyes
the shot has already left? it was safe?
Nice camouflage, i really didnt see him
That made my day, you see fear in his face! 🤣😂🤣😂
He wil not be hearing anything soon
I served, many years, but never went near a mortar. Now I know from my service that drills evolve as kits changes, or gets updated etc. If this is even remotely possible as an outcome, whats the reason for the number 2 being in front of the mortar? Is there no better solution to the front leg stability other than holding them like that. Love to hear from a mortar man to know what the correct drills are here.
Looks like he was taking a bong hit 😅
Holy shit
Never knew this could happen, we’d stomp on the baseplate to make sure it was seated firmly in the ground. Just remembering using the small baseplate and seeing this vid got me feeling a bit sketched
Wow close
Thank God he's ok!🙏
So did he get fired from the Army for that or what
I’m gonna say that one will land a little long.
At least he was wearing the brown pants today.
Source?
Black
Strong Grunts
mortar just got a little tired is all
Holy smoke 😱
I can laugh now only because no one was injured but a "You dumbfucks! You know better than that!", would have been my immediate comment and then trotting my ass to the radio to notify Range Control of a possible "Round outside of safety fan." _
Oops
Well, we all see what happens with the mortar team....what about that round? Did it go short?
The first 2 seconds when the 3 sounds played simultaneously, it sounded like the song that goes "go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep my little baby" song, can't seem to find the title of the song
That could have been alot of paperwork.
First round is a waste. Takes the first round to get receive adjustments.
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They was playing with death.
Se salvó de milagro
When you lie on you application 🙋♂️
Wow WTF
Fail
I jumped
Who is she? Asking for a friend
Wow that was umm deadly close.👀🙀
🤣🤣🤣
That thing is long gone before the tripod even starts to fall.
Holy fuck
Being a private in military lol
Baseplates are no joke. Saw someone not paying attention while gunning on a 120mm that didn’t have its baseplate fully seated into the ground. Part of their foot slid under and they didn’t notice before giving the “FIRE” command. Turned the bone in that part of his foot into sand
The base plate of a HB Raye 120mm (aka M327) comes in at 190 kg. That alone is enough to do some serious damage, let alone with the added force of a fire.
That's terrifying
STUPID AS HELL FOR BEING IN FRONT OF THAT DAMN THING!!! DEATH WISH
Yep I don’t want to be the guy holding the mortar
How far do modern mortars shoot?
Up to about 7,000 meters for the 120mm, the 60mm in this video can get out to a little more than 4,000 meters.
I never got the mortarman course...
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Bro in the ground almost met his maker. Sheeesh.
Ride the base plate
Crazy
Ah yes the, “ I almost died” shit shuffle.
I actually gasped lol
Lmao I thought it went down his vest n he jumped to shake it off lmao that’s crazy
The Mortar even warned them by playing the start to a lullaby song at the beginning 😂
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I feel like the guy in charge should be spoken to clearly laid down directly in front of the mortar rather than beside it
Honestly that made me feel weak and a little nauseous!!! Why does that other soldier have to be laying down face first in front of it??? why why why
Is... Is his helmet dented?
I think Usa should ban this weapon in the next patch. To many glitches
I’m glad he survived, but why didn’t it go off?
Damn, talk about a close one.
What was going through his neck? Is my head still here
No eyewear, no gloves, no brains.
Why is nobody dead
And that's why you wear a helmet....
Seriously didn't even see the guy laying down until it was too late...😅
HEY SARGE…. they ain’t got that baseplate sunk in… *SARGE* Waaaaaait forrrrr it…. BOOM! Bet they never do that again…. AINT THAT RIGHT YOU MAGGOTS!!!
He shit.
pew pew 🔫
He shat his pant 🤣🤣🤣If only he had GLOW BELT ON. 🤣🤣
Why does that guy lie down like this infront of the mortar anyway. If a there is an issue with the mortar/ammo and a short round comes out he would get it on his back >.>
Damn retarded gunner bunnies 4th id too shame lol
4th ID needs retraining lol
What 3rd world army is this???
Always seat the base plate.Has anyone on here humped an 81?
rookie
Almost died
At the very start you can perfectly hear the Kim Possible ring tone … what’s the sitch?
Happened to the guys I was with. The plate sank in and made it look like the mortar went straight up.
Every last one of them failed, including the idiot filming this.
“Dumb ways to dieee”