It was one hot summer morning, we where practicing throwing dummy grenades. All of us recruits where doing pretty good,until we got to the grenade bunker to throw live ones. There were two recruits in each bunker, and the instructor. I was first to throw my pineapple grenade. I was told that I threw a bull's eye, "well done," I was told by my instructor. Next he called out to the recruit, What happen next I will never forget, the recruit pulled the pin out and drop the hand grenade inside the bunker, the instructor was yelling grenade, grenade. He picked it up,and threw it out the bunker, I was behind the instructor, as all you Marines out their know in boot camp, we can't be eye balling the area, almost always in attention. So their I was, doing what I was told to do. So while all this comotion was going on in front of me he grab me from behind my neck and pulled me to the ground, the grenade blew close to the bunker all this sand fell on us. Now my ear on my left side is damaged. The bad part of all this was that we where never sent to sick bay to get checked. It was just like, get back in formatoin, I'm 55 yrs old and wear hearing aids on each ear, well I guess that's all I have to say, It was an accident. So my fellows Marines out there, past, present, and future, stay safe and be alert. If what you see, doesn't seem right, report it, take action. Huurraahh!
Semper Fi
"Bulldogs"