I’ll bet it was. Nothing like a good 15-6 to get the blood flowing.
As the youngest guy on the team, I had to jump it, but it was a rope jump. Hell, my team jumped in BBQ grills and small black and white TV’s, why not a thermonuclear weapon?
I’ve never seen photos of a team actually training with the dummy, so here are two from my collection. We were practicing emplacing it near a railroad bridge on South Post at Fort Devens when I was in 10th Group.
Obviously at that time I couldn’t photograph the actual device, even if it was inert.
It was that weird time when we could wear OG 107’s or BDU’s, or even ERDL for that matter.