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7 Marines dead...

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E-tech

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A 60mm mortar round was declared to have bore-prematured, and 7 of our boys were lost. (what model fuse?)
I just don't see how? Were they firing a recovered/re-used fuze with a stuck firing pin? (unsafe, and unlikely)
Were they mistakenly firing a "project eldest son" type of round?
Any chance for any truth on what happened to our boys?
 
nothing yet, other then the fuze was a PD. I know they have started the malfunction investigation which is going all the way back to the explosive manufaturers and the fuze component manufacturers. One of the companies I consult too has already had a visit from the investigaton team
 
Since it wasn't a multi-function as stated in another thread, was it the M923? There was an accident in the late '80's at Lejeune with the 81mm mounting the M567 (M923 with booster) and if I remember right, it was a stuck round and another dropped on it, causing an in-bore detonation. Purely speculation, but it CERTAINLY isn't the sequester that caused it as alluded to by our esteemed Senate Majority Leader. Regards, Bruce.
 
This situation very interesting for me too. I can`t understend how so many people died from just one 60-mm mine!
Very interesting, how all this people were standing respect to mortam? Because so many died in one moment and 6 were injured. Like for me, realli incredibly situation, but it happened!
Maybe were two mine in barrel?
 
A horrible, tragic accident. On my T2 to T1 upgrading course and others of around the same time there was a reconstruction of an accident that involved the British 81 mm mortar, from an actual incident in the 1970s. Three or four paratroopers were killed when a mortar crew placed a second bomb into the tube while there was already one in it. The explosion ripped the tube apart and the shrapnel from it and the two bombs killed the men. I've seen the photos of the real incident and they made me feel sick. Two tail units were found in the area of the explosion. What was not decided was whether the first bomb got stuck in the tube and nobody noticed it had not fired or whether it was already on its way back up when it hit the second bomb that was coming down.
 
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