Thinking about the Camp Pendleton Artillery Disaster here...

[jmowreader]

CBS News is reporting that artillery crews from Camp Pendleton's 1st Marine Division fired 155mm artillery projectiles over Interstate 5 on Saturday, October 18, 2025. One of them detonated over the freeway and frag from the projectile hit a California Highway Patrol car.

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/camp-pendleton-live-fire-demonstration-shrapnel-5-freeway-california-highway-patrol/

I have one simple question: How big of an absolute fucking idiot do you have to be to fire fuzed high explosive ammunition from a howitzer during an exhibition? Smoke rounds, illumination rounds and practice rounds are a thing, as is charging the gun with powder and no shell so you get that nice loud bang you want but nothing comes out the end. I realize Marines are supposed to be stupid but they really ought not to abuse the privilege.

[paleotn]

1. Loud bang without all the death and destruction. My thoughts too.

What in the absolute F!!!

[Jacson6]

2. That is called a short round and happens all the time in the Artillery

We had several of them when I was in the Army Artillery 40 years ago. That is why we didn't shoot over public roadways and towns.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

3. The military

as a whole, is all in for Trump. Just remember fucking Milley and his "walk" with Trump the bible thumper.

[Squaredeal]

4. That's why the Marines were referred to as grunts in Vietnam.

[likesmountains 52]

5. "We break things and kill people."

[Irish_Dem]

9. This is the message Hegseth is sending. A warning to California and liberal states.

I will send in the marines to terrorize you.

[Klarkashton]

6. The maga assholes were claiming that the whole

Thing about live fire was made up by Newsom.
Honest to God there is no end to the bullshit with those bastards.

[FHRRK]

14. I got home yesterday to a plethora of ignorant comments on Nextdoor

Live about 30 miles north of the base.

First the ignorant MAGAts were claiming fake news, when people linked the CHP closure, they all pivoted to “Newsoms fault.”

I went back today and posted the LA Times article regarding the car and motorcycle hit. Made sure to call each one an ignorant MAGAt.

Tomorrow will call my Rep and let her team know this ignorant shit must stop, she has a year left in office and she can break from Trump or go down being an ignorant enabler.

[Klarkashton]

15. I saw all that shit on the replies to the story posted by the

OC register. Same stuff. It had to have been orchestrated.

Even after the facts were made clear they still denied it.. It's a goddamn cult.

[taxi]

7. The windshield of a car traveling 70 mph driving into a speeding piece of shrapnel

sounds like a potentially lethal combination. The people who orchestrated this fiasco are a danger to public safety. If a similar event was caused by a civilian or private industry the lawsuits would be brutal.
Kudos to Governor Newsom for closing the road.

[bluedigger]

8. I think somebody hit the main road on Cape Cod in Massachusetts once.

The reason I know it happened is because it was an example of what not to do in artillery school.

[Silent Type]

10. Warrior Ethos, worm brain.

[Crowman2009]

11. Unfortunately the rocks in charge of the artillery regiment didn't want to upset Cpl. Vance & the orange assclown.

A lot of them would dive headfirst into an empty if ordered to.

[BurnDoubt]

12. Good to self-own when you're showing off.

Rookie Moves don't get the chick's.
It's always been the Truth.
Come Big Or Stay Home.

[calimary]

13. Dear God! WHEN is this nightmare OVER???

Every time I think it can’t get any worse, it DOES.

[Historic NY]

16. What asshole thought this was a good idea?

[Retrograde]

17. Hegseth?

Does't the buck stop with him?