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Old 3rd Dec 2017, 02:47
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Salute!

TNX for update, Gnadenburg.

I have a hard time thinking CBU bomblets are still a threat after 40 years. I would think the many dud bombs we dropped are a bigger problem. If we screwed up with our switches or the fuze itself was bad, there would be a chunk of steel with 175 pounds of tritonal there. Thinking MK-82.

One reason I resist going back is just the threat of the zillions of UXB. I would dearly love to prowl the Trail that I searched all those years ago, looking for a truck moving south.

In terms of density, the Euopean targets prolly have more UXB concentrated. In 'nam, the concentrations were along the Trail at various "choke points". In-country, we had a few big fights, but the UXB were cleared fairly quickly after 1975, and mostly after 1972.

Sad thing, war, but only the dead will know the end of war.

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