Breaking: Several Marines Killed At Military Depot (Ammunition Storage) Explosion In Nevada | |
SteveWutabi User ID: 1210803 United States 03/19/2013 06:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The explosion was unrelated to the ammunition being stored at the facility, Russ Collier, an official at the depot told KRNV-TV. Quoting: Sleeping Giant [link to rt.com] ^Does anyone believe that? IDK... last time I remember an ammo bunker exploding was a few months ago in Minden, LA... But remember the meteor sightings that night? The official line was a bunker explosion though. They are going the other way with this one, which tells me it actually was the ammunition blowing. |
Sleeping Giant (OP) User ID: 543618 United States 03/19/2013 06:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The explosion was unrelated to the ammunition being stored at the facility, Russ Collier, an official at the depot told KRNV-TV. Quoting: Sleeping Giant [link to rt.com] ^Does anyone believe that? IDK... last time I remember an ammo bunker exploding was a few months ago in Minden, LA... But remember the meteor sightings that night? The official line was a bunker explosion though. They are going the other way with this one, which tells me it actually was the ammunition blowing. Good point. Wake up, oh sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you |
insertfunnyusername User ID: 35967835 Greece 03/19/2013 06:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wow, I do remember this, it made the mushroom cloud. Quoting: Sleeping Giant From your link: More than 4,000 tons of shells exploded near a military testing ground some 40 kilometers from the city of Orenburg in Central Russia, prompting the mass evacuation of two nearby towns. Those 4,000 tons included 1,379 tons of 100mm shells, 400 tons of air bombs and 2,300 tons of 280mm reactive shells, the head of the military investigative committee announced. More ammunition... Yep, it was combined with other suspect/mystery explosions in various factories/plants/weapon depot in US, Japan, S.Korea, S.Arabia, Mexico, Yemen, it was an explosive October. Seems that today's explosion is an accident according to MSM though. Last Edited by insertfunnyusername on 03/19/2013 06:10 AM |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28232082 United States 03/19/2013 06:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | they just said on the news, this killed at least 6, and injured 8 6 Marines killed in explosion during training exercise at Army depot in Nevada [link to www.wpsdlocal6.com] |
NiNzrez User ID: 28232082 United States 03/19/2013 06:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | they just said on the news, this killed at least 6, and injured 8 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28232082 6 Marines killed in explosion during training exercise at Army depot in Nevada [link to www.wpsdlocal6.com] Six U.S. Marines were killed and eight wounded when a mortar exploded during a live-fire training exercise late Monday at an Army munitions depot in the Nevada desert, military officials told NBC News. A 60-millimeter mortar exploded in a tube at Hawthorne Army Depot as Marines were preparing to fire it, the officials said Join Me On The GLP SOLAR WATCH Thread Thread: SOLAR WATCH * Huge X8.2 Flare Sept. 10, 2017! (Updated Daily) |
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insertfunnyusername User ID: 35967835 Greece 03/19/2013 06:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 7 Marines killed in explosion during training exercise at Army depot in Nevada [link to usnews.nbcnews.com] |
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Sleeping Giant (OP) User ID: 543618 United States 03/19/2013 06:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 7 Marines killed in explosion during training exercise at Army depot in Nevada Quoting: insertfunnyusername [link to usnews.nbcnews.com] From your link: There were conflicting reports about what happened. According to one account, a 60-millimeter mortar shell exploded in a tube as Marines were preparing to fire it. Another account said that the shell exploded as Marines were picking it up to load it. Wake up, oh sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you |
Saddletramp User ID: 812002 Puerto Rico 03/19/2013 06:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The explosion was unrelated to the ammunition being stored at the facility, Russ Collier, an official at the depot told KRNV-TV. Quoting: Sleeping Giant [link to rt.com] So what are we supposed to make of that...we store explosive ammunition, but it wasn't our ammunition that caused the explosion?!?!? "And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius "Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..." "We don't rent pigs!" |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 36355251 United States 03/19/2013 06:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The explosion was unrelated to the ammunition being stored at the facility, Russ Collier, an official at the depot told KRNV-TV. Quoting: Sleeping Giant [link to rt.com] It is like saying : recent flooding is not related to record rainfall in this area. |
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Angelic_Warrior User ID: 23290196 United States 03/19/2013 07:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Prayers for the families of the dead and injured. My son oversees the ammo dumps in the Air Force and just told me las week he is leaving next fall.. God Willing after 22 years. Apparently there is alot of internal turmoil among the new recruits as the across the board "sequester" cut backs take effect. He can't get out soon enough for my liking. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. I Corinthians 2:14 God doesn't choose favorites.. They choose HIM It is not the greatness of my faith that moves mountains but my faith in the greatness of God |
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SE User ID: 1673157 Canada 03/19/2013 07:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | An official at the Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada says an explosion has occurred during a Marine Corps training exercise. Quoting: Sleeping Giant Russ Collier told KRNV-TV in Reno that the explosion Monday night was an accident unrelated to the ammunition that is stored at the military facility near the small desert community of Hawthorne, about 140 miles southeast of Reno. [link to www.foxnews.com] At least it had nothing to do with Janet RENO on The Simpsons Dark Knight Court |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 11591025 United States 03/19/2013 07:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | they just said on the news, this killed at least 6, and injured 8 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28232082 6 Marines killed in explosion during training exercise at Army depot in Nevada [link to www.wpsdlocal6.com] Six U.S. Marines were killed and eight wounded when a mortar exploded during a live-fire training exercise late Monday at an Army munitions depot in the Nevada desert, military officials told NBC News. A 60-millimeter mortar exploded in a tube at Hawthorne Army Depot as Marines were preparing to fire it, the officials said Do they always go firing huge ammunitions at 10pm at night on Mondays? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 11591025 United States 03/19/2013 07:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Alright men. This is a demonstration on how NOT to handle charges in an ammunition depot. Watch closely..." Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13095332 shut the fuck up would ya'z? bet you would not last a 48 hours training with some of the men i have met. douche bag Would YOU? |
salty1 User ID: 32437161 United States 03/19/2013 08:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Breaking News ‏@BreakingNews Quoting: dikkie Update: A 60-millimeter mortar exploded in a tube at Nevada's Hawthorne Army Depot as Marines were preparing to fire it; 6 dead - @NBCNews Wow Dammmmn, a good friend of mine was a Mortarman in the Corp. Gotta ask him what he thinks of this later. I was with the 81MM Mortars my first four years in. MOS was 0341...we were trained on the 60MM also. It sounds as if a round cooked off while they were preparing to manually fire the round. With the 60s, you can pre-load a round, and then trigger fire it. Something must have went very wrong prior to trigger firing. Have a look at this video to see 60MM in action... Last Edited by salty1 on 03/19/2013 08:07 AM saltyone USMC 0341/0331 |