flash bang

[Cree Warrior]

Well I'm back, summer in Gagtown sucked.

I have heard that the US is considering mothballing the handgreneade in favour of using flashbangs. I guess they case to many friendly injuries and not enough enemy ones in combat. Interesting, if you've read "Blackhawk Down", some of the guys from 3rd Batt would probably agree.
Thoughts?

Sua Sponte.

[0802]

There are hundreds of thousands if not millions of frag and concussion grenades in ASP through out the world and in the war reserves. There are still munitions in some stock piles that were declared obsolete in the 60, so frags will probably not go away in the near future.

[recce_o]

The subject was partially covered in May at:
http://www.specialoperations.com/ubboard/Forum1/HTML/000301-2.html

[recce_o]

Cree Warrior,

Oh, and by the way, I'm sure you did phenomenally well on course. Congrats!

Recce