Assuming a 4 second fuse length, two of which are spent in flight, you have just two seconds to notice the grenade, react, reach down, pick it up, plant your feet, lift up, and throw it far enough that you're clear of the blast radius.
Not going to happen except in the ultra-rarest of situations. Plus, while you're faffing about with that, whoever threw the grenade at you is still putting fire down on your position. I've seen some ill-advised suggestions to cover it with your helmet. Below are the remains of Medal of Honor winner Jason Dunham's helmet. While securing an insurgent he noticed that the insurgent dropped a grenade at his feet. He covered the grenade with his helmet and his own body. Dunham died of his wounds.
As you can see, the Kevlar threads are clearly visible, and the helmet, though ripped apart, is still in large chunks. Because the helmet covered the grenade, it collected the full force of ALL of the shrapnel even that which would have otherwise been directed away from him. If the grenade had been on the ground next to him, this helmet would have been largely intact but he still would likely have been killed. Wiki Content. Troping Utilities. Troper Social Networks.
Unofficial Fan Discord Forum. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Jumping on a Grenade. View source. History Talk 0. Do you like this video? Play Sound. Edit source History Talk 0. Dunham, USMC deceased ". Who's Who in Marine Corps History. Retrieved 19 July Fittest of the Survivors. He grabbed one off a dead man in the surf, racked the slide, and charged into battle. Rushing through the brutal, endless curtains of strafing machine gun and artillery fire that raked the beach, Lucas grabbed his newly-acquired weapon and charged ahead, undaunted by the explosions and bullets zipping all around.
He ran ahead, reached the relative safety of the treeline, and fell in with a four-man fire team that had already started working its way through the dense jungle, trying to clear out one of the most tenacious and ferociously-hardcore enemies the United States ever faced.
Lucas and his men were making their way through a ravine, fighting every step of the way, when suddenly some bad shit started to go down. It turned out that the Japanese had dug this ridiculously intricate series of caverns and secret passages that ran through the entire island, so just as Lucas and his buddies thought they were going to launch their final assault on a Japanese machine gun nest, they came to the horrible realization that all 11 men in that pillbox had gone into a tunnel, crawled underneath them, and popped up directly behind the Marines.
The Marines turned to fire, and in Jack Lucas' much-awaited first moments of real battle his first round went through the helmet of an enemy soldier, killing him on the spot. His second round jammed in the rifle. I guess that's what happens with rifles you pick up in ankle-deep water on blood-soaked sandy beaches. It was at this point that Jack Lucas saw the live hand grenade that had just landed at his feet. He threw his body on it without hesitation, screaming for the other Marines to take cover.
When a second enemy grenade landed within arms' reach, Lucas grabbed it and jammed it under his body as well. The Type 97 Fragmentation Grenade is a ounce metal ball stuffed with 65 grams of TNT and a 5 second timed-detonation mechanism. Now, a common misconception about hand grenades is that they create some huge fiery explosion that blows people into the next area code like they were launched out of a flaming death-catapult, then they proceed to ignite everything in the general vicinity up to and including the Earth's atmosphere.
But, while the explosive power unleashed by a frag grenade is certainly not the sort of thing you want to wake up to every morning, what kills the majority of people isn't the bomb but the flying bits of shrapnel.
Basically, the explosion is just a catalyst that shatters the metal outside of the grenade and sends tens of thousands of tiny, razor-sharp metal splinters hurtling through the air in every direction, shredding anything in their wake, and killing or maiming anyone or anything within to feet. You ever wonder why some grenades look like pineapples? It's because when the bomb goes off each little section of the pineapple morphs into a bullet firing off into some random direction. It ain't pretty.
And Jack Lucas just had two of those little bastards blow up straight into his torso. Sure, his friends survived thanks to his heroism, but all that metal has to go somewhere, and where it went was straight into Lucas' body.
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