Who, What, Why: How dangerous is firing a gun into the air?

[Stealhead]

I tried to find some photos of Soviet troops in training with the blank adapters but I did not find any I have several old cold war era books that show them though.

Of course we have the MILES system which simulates bullets of various calibers so you cant kill a tank with an M-16.The Soviets never had anything like that and I don't think the Russian military does today not on a large scale anyway.Before MILES it was pretty easy to cheat one of my uncles told me about a war game in West Germany in the late 50s back in those days you had a team color which would be the color of your m1 helmet liner my uncle got picked to drive the commander around in a jeep and they took a wrong turn they stopped and realized that they where in "blue" territory and the radio operator takes out this little can of red paint and takes everyone's helmet liners and paints them red they figured that no red troops would not question a red officer riding in a jeep and they didn't.The trick was to have two sources of paint one in your color the other in the enemy color.

[MH]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Of course we have the MILES system.....

It aways comes defective

[August]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

I tried to find some photos of Soviet troops in training with the blank adapters but I did not find any I have several old cold war era books that show them though.

Of course we have the MILES system which simulates bullets of various calibers so you cant kill a tank with an M-16.The Soviets never had anything like that and I don't think the Russian military does today not on a large scale anyway.Before MILES it was pretty easy to cheat one of my uncles told me about a war game in West Germany in the late 50s back in those days you had a team color which would be the color of your m1 helmet liner my uncle got picked to drive the commander around in a jeep and they took a wrong turn they stopped and realized that they where in "blue" territory and the radio operator takes out this little can of red paint and takes everyone's helmet liners and paints them red they figured that no red troops would not question a red officer riding in a jeep and they didn't.The trick was to have two sources of paint one in your color the other in the enemy color.

During an ARTEP at Hohenfels a few of our guys acting as aggressor forces put white engineer tape around their steel pots like the referees, donned medic armbands and drove right into the enemy Bn HQ. They claimed they were from the Red Cross and they were there to take SFC so and so for a family emergency. SFC so and so happened to be the Bn S2 NCOIC. Once clear of the AO guns were pulled out and he became our prisoner. The Refs didn't allow it to stand of course but it sure made an impression.

That was the year we got ahold of the enemy CEOI and used it to broadcast "Radio Free Orange Forces" on their tactical radio nets.

[Dowly]

Guns are bad, mkay?

[Gerald]