Fired 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
First, sorry for my bad english - I'm still learning, but I hope that it is good enough, that you may have no problems reading this story.
I will not have any problems if you edit this message in the name of an better english! ;-)
I spent 4 years in the german army and during that time I was trained at an old 20mm-anti-aircraft-gun - spending two month in the training facilitly at the East-Sea.
During these two month I spent much time with one of the instructors, due to the fact that I was already a sergeant and he was an experienced master-sergeant.
One evening he told me about an (more or less tragical) "accident" of another instructor a few years ago....it's not an urban legend because he knew this other instructor and his (once again more or less) tragic event...
During a training session at the shooting-range there was a jam in one of the 20mm-guns. If something like that happens it is not allowed at all to open the gun within 15 minutes due to risk of a retarded ignition of the ammo. After the 15 minues only special instructed gunners are allowed to work on the jam.
Well, this instructor seemd to have a high opinion of oneself - without waiting he went to the gun and opend the body of the gun to have a look at the breech - one bullet was in the barrell, the firing pin had hit the fuze - but no igniton.
The instructor started to remove the barrel - still with the bullet inside!!!!
The gunners withdrawed from the gun, but the instructor were asking them to help him - but they declined and warned him about the enormes and actual danger.
He ignored them.
After the removing of the barrell he took it and was stamping it on the ground the get that stucked bullett out!
Everyone should know by now what happened next....there was an ignition and the 20mm-barrell was flying about 10, 15 meters wide, ramming in the ground like a rocket after an ballistic flight....
And the instructor had serveral serious injuries.
Both hands broken and burned as well as as his legs, which were pierced by fragment of the bullet.
But the most interesting fact is, that at the moment of the ignition the bullet and the lower end of the barrel was at the right height - just at groin-level.
He lost his penis and his scrotum.
So to say he removed himself from the genpool with a loud BANG - he still had no kids that time.
He survived with these serious injuries - but was fired (that's a very mean word for it ;-) ) from the german army. There was no articel in the newspapers, because the army was very quiet about this incident.... Submitted on 10/20/2003
Submitted by:
Tobias
Reference:
Date : very late 80ties
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