# Carrying grenades on shirts

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrying-grenades-on-shirts/607235>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 24, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrying-grenades-on-shirts/607235 "2011-12-24T01:05:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![obbn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d6d6ee/32.png) [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrying-grenades-on-shirts/607235/1 "2011-12-24T01:05:44Z")

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Hello Everyone,  
I am sure that you have noticed in movies and actual military pictures of a soldier with grenades hanging off the front of his shirt. I am just wondering how this was done. Is there an attachment hook of some sort on soldiers shirts and a corresponding hook on the grenade? Not a world changing question, but one that I have wondered about when I see this.

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**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrying-grenades-on-shirts/607235/2 "2011-12-24T01:37:45Z")

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They’re attached to webbing worn over the shirt. Pictures might explain it better, [Google of “army webbing”](http://www.google.com/search?pq=webbing&hl=en&cp=2&gs_id=8&xhr=t&q=army+webbing&biw=1613&bih=880&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&wrapid=tljp132469045986922&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=Kiz1ToCONcn40gHzi5nJAg).

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrying-grenades-on-shirts/607235/3 "2011-12-24T01:45:19Z")

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The grenade is secured with a velcro strap. See [here](http://strikehold.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/rose13.jpg). Otherwise it would fall off whenever you ran or moved quickly.

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**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrying-grenades-on-shirts/607235/4 "2011-12-24T05:32:17Z")

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Tape, cord, strap, whatever’s handy. There are pouches made specifically do hold any kind of grenade you’d like, so that is usually the prefered method.

Here’s a guy using [zip ties.](http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd259/bear_nenno/DSC00732a.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Nunavut\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@Nunavut\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunavut_Boy)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrying-grenades-on-shirts/607235/5 "2011-12-24T07:18:22Z")

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Also, it is much harder to pull the pin on a grenade than what the movies would have you believe. As a new recruit it basically took all my strength to successfully pull the pin out. So pulling a pin with one’s teeth is comeplete bullshit.

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**Author:** ![Dufus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c77e96/32.png) [@Dufus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dufus)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrying-grenades-on-shirts/607235/6 "2011-12-24T15:04:58Z")

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**Don’t** use the little ring to hang your grenade on your web gear!