Basic Training Grenade Training

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This is video that was recorded by a photography company in Columbus, Georgia while I was in US Army Basic Combat Training from August-Nov 1997. This company would record various bits of training and then rip of the Joes by charging them large quantities of hard-earned money for this bouncy, grainy video. Anyways....its good to have this record of what I was going through, though it is hardly all-encompassing. This video is of grenade training. Here, the trainers teach us proper grenade throwing technique in several positions. We are using practice grenades, which pop a few seconds after the pin is pulled and the spoon released. Good stuff...Hooah! More clips from my basic training to come.

Channel: People & Blogs
Uploaded: November 14, 2006 at 3:38 am
Author: fenianguy

Length: 00:05:26
Rating: 4.43
Views: 57546

Tags: army basic training bct fort benning georgia drill sergeant private trainee military infantry hand grenade hooah

Video Comments:
akamoet (October 19, 2008 at 2:02 pm)
20F - MSG me on MSN. ID is in my profile. 4
Sonilink (October 16, 2008 at 8:37 pm)
F-Cam - MSG me on MSN. ID is in my profile. 4
berlinSS (October 14, 2008 at 9:40 pm)
Somehow stupid...
Field Manual of Land Forces of Soviet Army supports using the defensive grenades against the enemy at ~30 meters...
kvn8907 (September 8, 2008 at 8:57 pm)
Well, the drill sargents seem a lot less like assholes than in movies like Full Metal Jacket, but they're still dead serious.
bartman1775 (October 1, 2008 at 6:32 am)
this is army FMJ is Marines.
kvn8907 (October 1, 2008 at 8:40 pm)
Ah. Well maybe that explains it. :)
cnbn9 (October 24, 2008 at 9:30 am)
The reason they aren't assholes is because they are range cadre not drill sergeants. Notice the pin on the sergeants uniform at 0:36. The range cadre do more instructing than discipling.
kvn8907 (October 24, 2008 at 9:56 pm)
Is this the sort of basic training course that everyone in the army needs to go through, even if they just plan to go into artilery, tank, logistics, etc?
cavalier777 (August 24, 2008 at 10:38 pm)
grenades are solid metal with explosives inside. they're way too heavy to throw overhand like a baseball, and you want to arc it up to make the timing correct. you'd rather throw too far away than too close.... a baseball won't blow up and kill you if you toss too short.
pvthansen1234 (August 20, 2008 at 6:08 am)
Proper grip, thumb the clip, twist pull pin, throw! Yeah, we still do two live grenades.