laudablepuss wrote:

E. L. Koba wrote:

Senor Barborito wrote:

Sometimes the shit you come across reading the slashdot comments is pretty interesting.

--SB

One of the guys in my unit was an old vet with a shitload of years in. Back in the day, his original MOS was to parachute in with the SADM (the "steamer trunk" nuke they described), set it up behind enemy lines somewhere, then get the hell out of there. He said it was one heavy mother.

I assume it wasn't actually strapped to his back when he hit the ground.

But you don't KNOW, do you? ASSUME NOTHING SOLDIER! The extra weight would help get him to the ground quicker, thus minimizing the amount of time he'd be a floating target for the enemy!

But seriously, that sounds like a suicide mission. There was a joke in the old Paranoia game about a thermonuclear handgrenade. Printed on the device were the instructions: THROW VERY HARD.