“Heat tabs, used for heating water and food, are another simple luxury a soldier can’t live without in the field. Most of us hate C-Rations as it is, and eating them cold is out of the question. After running out of heat tabs, some soldiers have cracked open the claymore mines and removed the plastic C-4 explosive to heat their food. If it is not compressed, it burns like gasoline. Then, no longer needing the casing with the embedded steel projectiles, the grunts have thrown them away into the jungle. Now what do you suppose Charlie does with them when finding such a prize?”
The class responded in unison, “He makes booby traps!”
“Correct! The United States Armed Forces has fired millions of artillery and mortar rounds since their arrival in this county, and occasionally, some are duds an
