Comment by LL on his blog prompted a memory. http://symbolic-mirage.blogspot.com/
I should sail across the pond with a hold full of really nasty
sling shots - you know the wrist rockets with ball bearing ammo, land in the
dead of night and haul the crates up the beach. You could modify them to fire
cream pies (in the face) or just keep the ball bearing ammo. I wonder if
they're illegal in Old Blighty?
I put together a “Care” package for my son while he was
deployed to Kandahar. Among other items was a wrist rocket. As a teener, he got
in lots of trouble with one. I thought he might hunt rats. No, he and his buddies
repurposed it for winning hearts and minds.
They had a supply of Jolly Rancher hard candies to pass out
to the local kids to build good will. Since the local kid’s favorite activity
was throwing rocks as our vehicles passed, the wrist rocket was used to give
them candy, usually a head shot.
He didn’t bring the wrist rocket back with him so it still
might be in Kandahar and being used to win hearts and minds.
I never thought to use Jolly Rancher ammo, but bravo to your son for re-purposing it for peaceful pursuits. Still, I could get in a lot of trouble with one in the peaceful and sedate Mohammedan neighborhoods of England.
ReplyDeleteFull cellophane jacketed, biodegradable, ammo.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant!
I had one and gave the birds and squirrels fits. I even used to to get rid of a few stray dogs (BJ - Before Judy).
ReplyDeleteLL
ReplyDeleteStealth!
drjim
Used by all in his unit. On road arches the top gunner carried it as my son rode inside.
Coffeypot
Once used his to git rid of stray punks!
Yay, how cool is that. My grandson the corpsman, carried candy with him when he and his Marines were out on a mission. The local kids were good to point out mines for a piece of candy...
ReplyDeleteHehehe, if it works, it ain't wrong... :-D
ReplyDeleteBrig
ReplyDeleteTravis used his civilian plumbing skills to build a limb wound washing station for a village while on loan to a Special Forces detachment.
Old NFO
ReplyDeleteIt gave our people a small measure of satisfaction.
Kids + wrist rockets = bad things happening.
ReplyDeleteKids + BB guns = bad things happening.
Teenagers + fifth of Wild Turkey + car keys = bad things happening.
Now, that Jolly Roger twist on my axiom, I may have to re-think this on maybe a good vs evil basis. Or maybe the lesser of two evils. Something like that.
Fredd
ReplyDeleteDon't strain yourself.