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The Truth About Land Mines
It is a classic war movie trope: a squad of soldiers are marching
through the jungle when, suddenly, they hear an ominous click. One of
the soldiers freezes and, glancing down, spots a telltale metal disk
under his foot. His heart begins to beat furiously: he has just stepped
on a landmine. His comrades urge him to stay perfectly still, for if he
moves even an inch the mine will explode, blowing off his leg and very
likely killing him. The seconds and minutes tick by in unbearable
suspense as the soldiers scramble to come up with some way - any way -
of getting their squadmate out of this sticky situation alive, despite
how relatively easy it would be in that scenario to solve the problem by
simply keeping downward pressure on the person’s shoe, then taking
their foot out and putting a rock or something on the shoe after.
Nevertheless, a highly-effective means of introducing tension, this
scenario has appeared in dozens of films including 2014’s The Monuments
Men, 2017’s Kingsman: the Golden Circle, and the appropriately-titled
2015 Georgian exploitation film Landmine Goes Click.
But does it have any basis in reality?
Author: Gilles Messier
Editor/Host: Daven Hiskey
Producer: Caden Nielsen
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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It is a classic war movie trope: a squad of soldiers are marching
through the jungle when, suddenly, they hear an ominous click. One of
the soldiers freezes and, glancing down, spots a telltale metal disk
under his foot. His heart begins to beat furiously: he has just stepped
on a landmine. His comrades urge him to stay perfectly still, for if he
moves even an inch the mine will explode, blowing off his leg and very
likely killing him. The seconds and minutes tick by in unbearable
suspense as the soldiers scramble to come up with some way - any way -
of getting their squadmate out of this sticky situation alive, despite
how relatively easy it would be in that scenario to solve the problem by
simply keeping downward pressure on the person’s shoe, then taking
their foot out and putting a rock or something on the shoe after.
Nevertheless, a highly-effective means of introducing tension, this
scenario has appeared in dozens of films including 2014’s The Monuments
Men, 2017’s Kingsman: the Golden Circle, and the appropriately-titled
2015 Georgian exploitation film Landmine Goes Click.
But does it have any basis in reality?
Author: Gilles Messier
Editor/Host: Daven Hiskey
Producer: Caden Nielsen
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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