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Originally Posted by craigster59

We trained a little bit with frags but first practiced with inert (painted blue) practice grenades. I think it depends on your MOS, but as a Combat Engineer and I'm sure Infantry also did a little more explosives training.

I just remember the Drill Sergeant saying that if a grenade was dropped, the safest thing to do was drop to the ground as far away as possible as the grenade had a "V" shaped blast zone.

Didn't sound very convincing to me but I grew up playing baseball so throwing at a target was a breeze.

I told kids if they dropped it, they needed to fall on it. They were careful.

It has been a long time, but if I recall, they seemed awfully heavy to throw like a baseball. More like a junior shot put ball.