3 Geronimo paratroopers throw live grenades at JBER
M67 fragmentation grenades are staged for live fire training at Kraft Range at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Dec. 12, 2017. During the familiarization training, paratroopers assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army Alaska, threw live hand grenades to hone their proficiency. The fragmentation hand grenade has a lethal radius of five meters and can produce casualties up to 15 meters, dispersing fragments as far as 230 meters.
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