RE: Obstacles, Part 2

You wrote: 
>
>Demolitions, according to my training is defined as anything that
>destroys something else.  Maybe you ment to say explosives?

Demolitions destroy stuff.  Claymores kill people--although if you tie 
to it a tree, you can drop it.	Wasteful way to drop a tree, IMHO.

>Just a question: how much explosives do you personally get to detonate
>per year?  The reason I'm asking is that we always hear stories about
>how well equipped the American Armed Forces are (being in Canada).

Well, I'm National Guard, remember.  Our company generally does about 2 
live Demo drills a year, and varies from 25lbs of C-4 to a full 
Hummer-load of C-4.  Plus Annual Training in the summer, which ranges 
from a (literal) ton of explosives to none.  So it's hard to 
generalize.  Good average might be a few hundred pounds for a company?

John M. Atkinson