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Originally Posted by Albany Rifles
Yes, Hand Grenade...and yup, you kind of gotta do what you are saying. You go through and assault course using training grenades. Its a combination of accuracy and distance. You have to throw into 5 meter circle, into a fighting position, through a window and a few other things.
Always helped it was shaped liek a baseball and I played catcher...kind of like throwing out the runner at 2d base!
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You'd be saddened to see the percentage of soldiers who never played baseball nowadays. Some of the poor team leaders and squad leaders would have to spend hours trying to teach some of the soldiers how to throw the grenade to the 35m target during EIB.
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