Unexploded Ordinance

[Riley Smith]

https://www.pnj.com/story/news/local/escambia-county/2026/02/27/fort-pickens-uss-massachusetts-pensacola-pass-has-old-explosives/88843978007/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=69a19567afe5d00001efe9d7&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawQP0ARleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE1SVMwS091S2p0ODlHUjNac3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHrDTNPziaxm-8VS-kPdWh4ojjqxHlDOHB4HUL-uEzsrDora0bYBGN7LJhkAp_aem_LtgVeGfNJAGqDl1ISmtuCg

[Timm R Oday25]

Well except for a few divers and fishermen ..they pose no danger . Just think of the fishing story being told where you caught a fish and as you were reeling it in , it exploded !

[Riley Smith]

Or that time you were pulling anchor....

[Charles Brennan]

Riley,        

Charles Brennan

[Chris Muthig]

Wasn't sure which way this thread was going to go based on the subject...  In Somalia that was one of my more funner jobs, riding out into the countryside in a Hummer convoy to place c-4 on unexploded ordinance, one time we found a  2 foot long round that didn't belong to anything we had, it was over 6 inches diameter at the largest, with a ton of wires hanging out of the back.  Wish I could have taken it as a souvenir, but it more than likely would have been the last thing I ever did.  We put 2 pounds on that one, and when it blew, the shockwave moved the Hummer about 6 inches in the sand sideways.  We were about a half mile away.  I cut the time fuse for 5 minutes, and it went off at 4 minutes and 58 seconds, my closest time yet.  I'm sad I don't still get to play with that stuff. 

[Riley Smith]

Stuff that goes bang!!!!

One of the most amazing things I've ever felt was a tube blowing in a furnace. It felt like an earthquake, not a boom, a rumble down IN THE GROUND!!! After the initial, a couple of bottles of sample gas for the analyzer went bang and it sounded like a firecracker. I'm glad not to be around that stuff anymore but I do miss it too. It sure made life exciting.

[Doug SC]

I don't know much about dealing with explosives other than to avoid them. However, as I am married, I have become adept at avoiding a misstep and explosion in that mined field. Most of the time anyway.

[Travis Chapman]

When I was stationed in Guam from '07 to '09 we were told to be on the lookout for UX anytime we were hiking or on the beaches, and sure enough about once a year the EOD team would get called out to go take care of something. For some reason I felt at the time that was surprising, but the locals just took it as par for the course. Our new commodore also had some excitement as his first hike upon arrival to the islands resulted in finding Japanese occupier remains from WWII that had to be turned over to the National Park service. History never really goes away