Lee Enfield at War

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In the 1960s, the Australian troops slugging it out at Long Tan called in artillery on their own positions. Anyone lying on the floor of the rain-drenched rubber-tree plantation was in some danger. Anyone standing up / advancing into that position was in deep trouble from shell splinters and chunks of shredded rubber tree.

Smaller scale but similar concept, had things go a bit wrong with an M67 Fragmentation Grenade on a live fire section attack range, a grenade came to rest 3m (12ft) from my position. It was flat ground with no cover, no choice but to stay flat and hope for the best, after what seemed like and eternity, the grenade detonated and the shockwave rolled past. No injury to me, I wasn't in the cone of fragmentation even though I was well inside the 5m killing radius of the grenade.