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Current Training
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MONDAY LIVE FIRE RANGE
TUESDAY FORCE ON FORCE
THE SAME RIFLES & THE SAME MAGAZINES ARE USED
FOR BOTH LIVE FIRE AND FORCE ON FORCE TRAINING!
Can You See The
Live Round?
Personal Experience
North County Times Tuesday, October 31, 2006
CAMP PENDLETON - Authorities are investigating the death of a decorated
22-year-old Marine who was shot Monday night during a training exercise at
Camp Pendleton.
Cpl. Seth M. Algrim, a mortarman from Kansas assigned to the 1st
Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, died at about 10 p.m. from
gunshot wounds sustained during an urban combat training exercise, Lt.
Esteban Vickers said. Foul play is not suspected.
LeatherNeck.com staff writer Gidget Fuentes, Nov13, 2006
Mortarman killed in mix-up
Pendleton death may prompt range safety scrutiny
Around 10 p.m., Algrim was hit several times with live rounds, according to
base officials. Emergency medical technicians responded, but the young
Marine was pronounced dead at the scene, they said.
Marine Dies During Training Exercise at Pendleton
Photo Source: Force Recon Assoc
2016 Incident
Morning of May 13th, 2016 an Apache Helicopter
at Fort Irwin California National Training Center
(NTC) was struck by 5 out of 7 shots of small arms
fire from a soldier in the 11th ACR.
The soldier was an OPFOR role player and both
were equipped with MILES Gear. The soldier fired
what he believed were blank rounds but were live
5.56 rounds. The aircraft was struck 5 times and
grounded once discovered for the investigation.
This event occurred during the phase in which all
units have blank ammunition.
Other Incidents
Pfc. Jeremy R. Purcell, 19, was a role player for an
evening training session with members of 1st Force
Reconnaissance Company on another nonlive-fire
range at Camp Pendleton on Aug. 28, 2002.Purcell,
a military policeman from Provo, Utah, was fatally
shot when four rounds of frangible ammunition
penetrated his body armor and struck him
Sgt. Cody W. Ottley, who had accidentally loaded his
M4A1 carbine with a magazine of live rounds instead
of blanks, pleaded guilty to negligent homicide and
received a one-year sentence and a bad-conduct
discharge. Ottley had recently completed a close-
quarters battle training course using live rounds with
his weapon and told investigators that he believed
he had loaded his weapon with blanks for the
subsequent urban raid training in the nonlive-fire
range. However, investigators found gaps in
prescribed safeguards and gear inspections and
faulted members of the unit and range officers
LeatherNeck.com staff writer Gidget Fuentes,
Nov13, 2006.
Photo Source: Force Recon Assoc
2015 Incident
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - A Fort Campbell
soldier has been shot and killed during a training
exercise. Pfc. Kevin J. Rodriguez, an infantryman
with Company A, 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry
Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team "Rakkasans,"
22, was pronounced dead at about 10:20 a.m. at
Blanchfield Army Community Hospital on Fort
Campbell.
The shooting happened on the sprawling base on
the Kentucky-Tennessee line. No one else was
injured. Lt. Col. Brian DeSantis, public affairs
officer for the 101st Airborne Division, said initial
indications are that the shooting was
accidental.The incident is still under investigation.
PHOTO COURTESY OF JANE GONZALO
Photo Source: Force Recon Assoc
Photo Source: Pfc. Daniel Parrott/Army Times
On May 23th, 2016, nine members of the country's Ground Self-Defence
Force (GSDF) reportedly shot as many as 79 live rounds at one another
during the military drill in northernmost Hokkaido after mistakenly loading
assault rifles with the wrong ammunition. Two people sustained minor
injuries – a sergeant in his 30s and a leading private in his twenties –
although to the force's relief no one was shot by bullets during the
incident on Monday, according to Kyodo News.
Foreign Military Incidents
Members of Japan's Ground Self-Defence Force (GSDF)
CREDIT: REUTERS
2018 INCIDENT
A soldier from 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division was shot
Friday while training for upcoming Expert Infantryman Badge testing at Fort
Polk, Louisiana, officials said Sunday.
The incident happened about 2 p.m. Friday, said Kim Reischling, a
spokeswoman for Fort Polk, in a statement to Army Times.
The soldier was listed in stable condition as of Sunday morning, Reischling
said.
The incident is still under investigation, she said, and she declined to
provide additional details.
What Happened?
• Both Marines and a soldier died during an urban combat training exercise.
• Both died from gun shots from another Marine in their platoons.
• The Marine’s and soldier involved in the incident thought their magazines were loaded with
M200(blanks). Their magazines had a mixture of live and blank rounds in them.
• Both Shooters plead guilty to negligent homicide, sentenced to a year in jail, and both
received other than honorable discharges.
• Both cases were not properly reported!
• The third and fourth cases are under investigation
• 2 Marines killed / 1 soldier killed
• 2 Marines / 1 soldier in jail / kicked
out of the Military
• 4 to 8 other Marines / Soldiers
removed from their platoon/company
• Morale
Personnel Military/Government
Impact & Cost
• 8 to 12 trained Marines / Soldier out of the fight
• $1,500,000 to the families of the fallen Marines
• Hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted in training
• Violation of public trust
Gun Shot Injury
Avg Medical Expense for a GS wound $150,000
50 Yrs of VA Disability @ 60% $1041 $624,600
Avg Cost to Recruit 1 Soldier $11,000
Basic Training $35,000
3.5 Yrs of Salary $65,500
Training/Salary for Soldier at Fault $123,000
Total Cost for 1 Non-Fatal Shooting 1,009,100
Fatal Shooting
Avg Cost to Recruit 1 Soldier $11,000
Basic Training $35,000
3.5 Yrs of Salary $65,500
Training/Salary for Soldier at Fault $123,000
Life Insurance to the Next of Kin $500,000
Total Cost for Fatality 734,500
Total Deaths & Injusries Since 2002
10 Service Member Deaths $7,345,000
100 Service Member Injuried $100,910,000
Total Cost 108,255,000
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PREVENTS END USERS FROM LOADING
AND FIRING LIVE AMMO DURING FORCE
ON FORCE TRAINING
Product
Safe Tactical Magazine
DOES NOT REPLACE SMALL UNIT LEADERSHIP
This product does not replace
small unit leadership or change any
range procedures. This is a tool to
assist leadership in their duties.
Safety You Can See
PSO’s and other Soldiers/Marines can easily ID that a training magazine is inserted in the weapon.
This survey was conducted on Facebook with roughly 407 participants. The
last question was added after the start of the survey and therefore
contains less responses.
Encounters with Live and Blank
Ammunition During Training - Survey
Have you ever accidentally brought live ammunition to a training exercise where only blank ammunition
was permitted?
Have you ever seen someone accidentally load, or attempt to accidentally load, live ammunition into a
magazine during a training exercise where only blank ammunition was permitted?
Have you ever personally fired or saw someone fire a live round during a training exercise where only blank
ammunition was permitted?
Have you ever seen or heard of anyone being killed or injured because a live round was accidentally mixed
in with the blank ammunition during a training exercise where only blank ammunition was to be used?
Do you think a training magazine that is specifically designed for force on force ammo and prevents users
from loading and firing live ammo during training would be useful?
407 ANSWERS - 63 YES (15.5%) | 344 NO (84.5%)
407 ANSWERS - 87 YES (21.4%) | 320 NO (78.6%)
407 ANSWERS - 80 YES (19.7%) | 327 NO (80.3%)
407 ANSWERS - 192 YES (47.2%) | 215 NO (52.8%)
45 ANSWERS - 36 YES (80%) | 9 NO (20%)
YES NO
Comments from Survey
After day one clean up, somehow live rounds were loaded into day two training mags. First round blew off the
blank adapter, mushrooming the flash suppressor. Mags were not checked by leadership and the trainee
didn't notice, or did and didn't care. Thankfully no injury's. This was on the buddy team live fire range at Fort
Benning around 2015
When I was stationed at Ft Benning Ga a Sgt was killed because the armor accidentally mixed live ammo with
blanks
While stationed at NTC Fort Irwin, almost every training unit had an issue with mixing blank and live ammo.
At least once per year someone was killed in a training accident due to having live rounds from qualification
when doing training with blanks. A blank only magazine would reduce the number of testing accidents,
injuries and deaths at a negligible cost. Especially in comparison to the cost of lives we're currently paying.
Please keep pushing for this until it is implemented.
Comments for the survey
I'm a Drill Sergeant, and have seen this numerous times. We have obviously instituted measures to protect
against mixing both but beyond dedicating a Drill Sergeant or COMPETENT NCO to checking each and every
magazine it's almost impossible to protect against if you don't have dedicated magazines for each.
A Soldier had live ammo mixed with blank and while firing at another Soldier the live round caused the blank
adapter to explode and pepper the "B" Soldier with shrapnel in his knee.
The time I saw live ammo mixed with blanks, was honestly a trainees ignorance. By this I mean, the person
had little to no knowledge of firearms or ammunition. Our Drill sergeant made a habit of checking our
magazines before training, in which he found 5 live rounds in one magazine. The trainee said he thought
since they had paint on the rounds they were "blanks" as he had never seen a painted tip round. If our
leadership had become complacent about training troops someone could have been injured.
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