Friday September 25th, 1970
…exactly 50 years ago this week
Here’s some of the technique we used for clearing a building. As a two-man team with Capt Dan Turner, we would first toss a concussion grenade into the building. Why use a concussion grenade and not a frag grenade? The answer is very simple–the buildings we were clearing of bad guys were not made of concrete, but of a material that a piece of frag would fly through.
Capt Dan would be on one side of the doorway and I would be on the other side of the door. As soon as the concussion grenade exploded it would generally blow the door open or in some cases completely off.
Lupyak, Lippert and Adderly have CAR-15s. Adderly also has an M-79 grenade launcher.
Read the rest of their technique for clearing a room and Sgt Terry Buckler’s full story in Who Will Go.
Click Here: The book.