I served as CATM cadre during basic training one year at the AF Academy. We had a "wives day" where officer's wives could come out and see what we were doing. Of course there had to be a huge dog 'n' pony show. They handpicked females to do the demonstration. Perhaps because we were cadets, they didn't trust us with live rounds (good thing, as you'll soon see). For the M-203 demo, the crowd saw a cadet fire a round and a 55-gal barrel on top of the berm blew up. The ruse was that the barrel was rigged with explosives and the M-203 only had a chalk round in it.
In this particular demonstration, the female had never fired the M-203 before. There was a male cadet watching over her shoulder. You hear the male cadet in a low voice say, "higher, higher." All of a sudden, she tripped the trigger and this chalk round came out, hit the ground about 10 feet in front of her, bounced, hit the ground again, and the barrel exploded on top of the berm.
Not just US Army, but other services, too - like the AF load-master of the pallet that had a chute deploy about 10 feet before impact...
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