A Fragging

[Anonymous Vet]

A Fragging

One night," recalls a captain in the First Air Cavalry Division, "I went out to check our perimeter and I found everybody - I mean everybody - asleep in five bunkers in a row.

I just decided Ienough was enough, and at the last bunker, I woke the men up and took their names. I was walking away when I heard one of the guys yell, 'I'm gonna kill you, you mother f. . . . .'

I heard him pull the pin, and I went down fast into a ditch. The frag sailed right past me and went off a few feet away. As soon as the dust cleared, I was right back on top of that bunker, and I really whaled on that guy. I think I would have killed him, but people pulled me off. He's in the stockade now. I hope he stays there." Newsweek 1971

[glenclover]

We only had only one fragging that I ever heard about. It was a 'faux' fagging, in that the frag was real, but the fuse had been removed and replaced with one from an expired smoke grenade. The effect was spectacular though... The victim was a loud-mouthed E-6 that was unpopular with nearly everyone he met. One day he was in the latrine alone,and someone rolled the fake frag into the facility. This guy went right through the screen door with his shorts around his ankles. I don't remember if anyone was disciplined over the incident, but he was the topic of conversation for weeks after.

[The Shadow]

Sh** happens