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February 9, 2017
This Just In
ISAF Drops Candy To Afghan Children, Collateral Damage Kills 51Approximately 1.4 million M&Ms were to be delivered via Container Delivery System in a single package with a weight of 1500 lbs. Due to a malfunction in the static line, the parachute failed to deploy and the container crashed through the roof of a local school at nearly 100 miles per hour. Upon impact, the force of the rapidly settling candies caused the sides to explode outward, causing what physics professor Dr. Rosella Schwartz described as “essentially a 360 degree anti-personnel mine full of chocolate flechettes.”
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I realize that its Duffelblog, and therefore tongue in cheek, but I do remember when we were first going into Afghanistan post 9/11 and were dropping civilianized MREs from C-130s.
I remember an MRE as being kinda hefty. I'm wondering if some poor goatherd, wandering around in the middle of the night, got KO'd by an MRE.
Posted by: OldFert at February 9, 2017 1:22 PM
I suppose it would only have been better if they had loaded the M&M's into HumVees to make delivery easier:
http://www.autoblog.com/2016/04/21/us-army-humvee-airdrop-accident-video/
Posted by: ed in texas at February 9, 2017 3:54 PM
A joke, surely?
Posted by: Bill Jones at February 9, 2017 6:56 PM