Front Toward Enemy

[mayagrafix]

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This guy has the right idea!

[Joni Lynn]

The other side probably says 'warning bullets exits here>>>>'

[Doran]

Claymore mines carry that marking.

[swampthang]

Thats like McDonalds coffee, the cup says contents very hot. Maybe its a liability thing.

[dogdollar]

You gotta know this guy has a wicked sense of humor. I would like to buy him a beer, sight unseen !!!!!

[AnimalKracker]

Now that I like. I'll have to remember that whenever I get around to doing a engraved one.

[mayagrafix]

Claymore mines carry that marking.


Yes, another great example of government brilliance. Many years of experience has taught the armed forces not to take the obvious for granted. Ask the Gunny... :D

[CleanSeries80]

that was a ww1 pistol =(

[towerdog]

I kinda like that!
when I was in the infantry, I carried an m16/m203...I scratched the same logo into the plastic hand guard, with an arrow.
:D
The armorer suggested only that I have a survey done when I left the company for the hand guard...other than that, he laughed, because he knew that I LOVED that rifle for its ability to make things go BOOM!

[DemoMan]

Yes, another great example of government brilliance. Many years of experience has taught the armed forces not to take the obvious for granted. Ask the Gunny... :D

The military puts warnings like that on all sorts of equipment, for a few reasons. First, you may have a situation where a person who has not been trained on an item (or was trained a long time ago and now has forgotten) needs to use it. Second, you have to take the shock and confusion of combat into account. Even a trained person can start making mistakes under that sort of stress. With something like a claymore, making sure the thing is facing the right way is a Good Thing. Finally, just like warning labels in civilian life, if its there that probably means somebody got it wrong before.

Personally I'll never forget a training exercise many moons ago where my platoon was crawling along the ditches beside a railroad track to assault the station. It was incredibly dark and nasty, crawling along through brush and brambles and over lots of rocks. When we got near the lights of the train station we switched to low crawl, which meant that you put your M-16 on top of your arms to keep it ready to use. As I crawled along I felt the 16 bump something, accompanied by a nice "ping!".

I froze for a second. Not hearing anything else, I reached out and moved some brush that was in front of me. In the dim light I could barely make out a small, squat rectangle in the bushes. Getting my face right up to it I finally saw that it said "Front Towards Enemy"!

I know, it was just training...but I still was in danger of needing clean undies at coming face to face with a claymore, even a fake one. The "ping" had been my 16's muzzle hitting the tripwire...fortunately not hard enough to set off the flare they put in the training versions of the claymore. I decided descretion was the better part of valor and got out of the way before one of my fellow cadets hit the trip wire while my face was inches away from it, or whoever was supposed to be watching the thing command-detonated it!

I didn't bother to tell my buddies the details of that little adventure for a long time. When I got to a safe distance I clipped the tripwire and later bragged about how I had saved them!