Posted on Sep 9, 2016
Bombs From The Vietnam War Are Still Killing People In Laos
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They are still finding WWI ordnance in France 100 years later! They have parts of the country that are off limits to most people because it is still dangerous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_rouge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_rouge
Zone rouge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The zone rouge (English: red zone) is a chain of non-contiguous areas throughout northeastern France that the French government isolated after the First World War. The land, which originally covered more than 1,200 square kilometres (460sqmi), was deemed to be physically and environmentally too damaged by the conflict for human habitation. Rather than attempt to immediately clean up the former battlefields, the land was allowed to return to...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Thank goodness with time their effectiveness declines somewhat. I've had the pleasure of walking thru a WWII Mine Field in Adak, AK. Stepping on an Anti-Personnel Spike while Hiking also in Adak and Living over a WWII Navy Ammo Dump, Jackson Park, Navy Housing, Bremerton, WA. Nothing like the kids coming home from the Park saying "Dad call EOD there is a Bomb in the Middle of the Softball Field".
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Rule number one; don't pick up cluster bomblettes. Rule number two; if you see one, leave the way you came because there are more laying around in the direction you were going. Also the first photo is of what I believe were an ass load of mortar rounds, which unless the Air force was pretty hard up for bombs to my knowledge were not a standard weapons package, and are most likely from the scuffle with the Khmer Rouge.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Good Advice and a Good Point. We were not the Only Ones adding to the Mix and the Khmer Rouge were some Sick Anti-Intellectualist Bastards.
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