MORTAR FAILURES

[CINDERS]

At Northam Army Camp in 1970 in the cadets we watched a firepower demo they had a 3" mortar crew set up and I gather using full charges as they got 10 in the air and had finished before the first bomb hit they were not resetting after each bomb just volume fire you could follow them till they went into the clouds as they were fairly low that day it was quite impressive a good solid boom as well.
At the camp when we first got there and de-trucked we were all in a hall sat quietly listening to the OC of the camp about the Rules & Regs whilst there when the b*rstards chucked in a hand grenade simulator and this chap in shredded JG's came screaming in with what I gather was fake blood or ketchup all over him and as a 13 y/o it scared the cr*p out of me, the regulars just cracked up laughing but our whole unit was all white faced and scared as hell.