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Originally Posted by ZonieDiver
By any chance, were those dummy charges actually "feminine hygiene" products? While up there in N AZ, did you spend any time in a large barn housing rafts for river running, etc. and associate with a relative of the president of the local state university? Just wonderin'...  |
Nope - sand filled C ration boxes wrapped with friction tape and training M3 push-pull non-electric firing devices with white plastic covered cotton rope (used for clotheslines) for simulated det cord. We wrote "BOOM" with a red marker on the bottom of each of the charges. Looked real - at least the security guards thought so. 
Richard's $.02 
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