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V-Strom specific discussion => V-Strom specific discussion => Topic started by: Scudnut on April 14, 2011, 13:18:30

Title: A Very Lucky Soldier
Post by: Scudnut on April 14, 2011, 13:18:30

I think I'd be having a word with someone after that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP_PfhpIlrE

Title: Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
Post by: Juvecu on April 14, 2011, 13:24:46

:shock:

Title: Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
Post by: putbinoot on April 14, 2011, 13:57:35

Balls of steel kept on with the drill. :thumb:

Title: Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
Post by: dogpuf on April 14, 2011, 13:59:12

Bet he was well annoyed - showing his bald head when his beret was shot off

Title: Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
Post by: 73bm73 on April 14, 2011, 14:15:09

unbelieveable... :shock:

Title: Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
Post by: Sven on April 14, 2011, 14:17:27

:shock:

Sarge, can I stand in the back row next time.

Title: Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
Post by: Fatbelly on April 14, 2011, 14:32:10

The point is, what a feckin' stupid drill to make blokes point guns at each other, even blanks can be darned dangerous.

Title: Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
Post by: Scudnut on April 14, 2011, 14:42:29

Quote from: "Fatbelly"

The point is, what a feckin' stupid drill to make blokes point guns at each other, even blanks can be darned dangerous.

They certainly can at that range, don't these weapons need a BFA? Surely they're not live rounds?

Title: Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
Post by: Squirrelciv on April 14, 2011, 18:26:01

I reckon it must have been displaced air from a blank.


More to the point, what were you looking up on youtube to find that clip!! :shock:

Title: Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
Post by: 2112 on April 14, 2011, 18:41:03

I suspect someone would have received a bit of a slap later...

Title: Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
Post by: Scudnut on April 14, 2011, 18:41:45

I'm afraid I'm guilty of nicking it from another forum.  :shy:

Title: Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
Post by: ukiboy on April 14, 2011, 20:37:42

Bit of a daft drill, having a line of soldiers in FRONT of another line of soldiers discharging weapons!  :shock:

Title: Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
Post by: choppsie on April 15, 2011, 08:28:34

Had to have been a blank. Had that have been live rounds I would have not kept my cool had my beret just been shot off!!!!!   :wtf:

Title: Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
Post by: Fatbelly on April 15, 2011, 10:34:42

ha, ha! Americanism filter again! Great = C ool