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Military report says 'one in a million' live fire malfunction rained shrapnel on California highway

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https://apnews.com/article/marines-250th-camp-pendleton-shrapnel-california-367baee09300fdfce0811454078cb71f
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DarthBluntSaber Mar 17, 2026 +1042
Sounds like the EXACT reason you dont fire live rounds over civilians and infrastructure... cuz you know, malfunctions happen and its their RESPONSIBILITY to reduce the potential risk and harm such malfunctions may cause.... the biggest way to do that is... TO NOT F****** SHOOT LIVE ROUNDS OVER CIVILIANS AND CIVILIAN INFRASTRUCTURE!
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LurkmasterP Mar 17, 2026 +195
But they wouldn't have to fire live rounds over civilians and civilian infrastructure if it was a red state. So you see it's California's own fault.
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iamsotiredofthiscrap Mar 17, 2026 +90
For having... *Checks notes* A federal interstate. I hate the executive so much...
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Small_Editor_3693 Mar 18, 2026 -29
There’s a shooting range over an highway in Switzerland
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iamsotiredofthiscrap Mar 18, 2026 +25
A shooting range. Not a live fire war exercise over one of the busiest highways in the nation. You do understand the difference, right?
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Small_Editor_3693 Mar 18, 2026 -38
A shooting range is a live fire war exercise is it not?
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iamsotiredofthiscrap Mar 18, 2026 +19
Are you trying to be dense? One involves shooting a target with a sporting rifle along a known trajectory. The other uses multi-million dollar equipment and weaponry to imitate a beach landing, with missiles and artillery worth more than your neighborhood. I really hope you can see the difference.
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Small_Editor_3693 Mar 18, 2026 -39
You don’t think missiles and artillery have known trajectories? You’re kind of exaggerating. A bullet, missile, and artillery are all projectiles and are very similar
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iamsotiredofthiscrap Mar 18, 2026 +19
No, they each have different magnitudes of potential destruction. A bullet kills one. A missile can kill thousands. Christ, you're stupid...
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VegisamalZero3 Mar 18, 2026 -21
Look, dude, I agree with you, but I gotta point out that you're making your own point look bad. Don't try and use stuff you don't understand to shore up your argument.
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Small_Editor_3693 Mar 18, 2026 -14
A missile is not killing thousands….. you’re exaggerating again
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hypersonic18 Mar 18, 2026 +54
You shouldn't do any fire exercises over civilian infrastructure. A dummy round is still several pounds of concrete filled steel that will be more than capable of turning a person into paste or crushing a car. The fact that there is a testing range separated by a public highway in commission is pretty stupid
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kan109 Mar 18, 2026 +28
It wasn't fired on a range. It was fired from one of the beaches used foe training (but not normally firing 155s) over the highway into a normal range. They wanted the visuals (and big badda booms) of the guns firing from near where the landings were.
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Why_Hello_hello Mar 18, 2026 +5
Where were the shells supposed to detonate instead of over I5?
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kan109 Mar 18, 2026 +2
There are ranges east of 5, that's what it was shot towards.
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throwawaykayaker Mar 18, 2026 +11
Thankfully Gavin Newsom ordered the I-5 closed for the test against the administration's wishes.
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Hi_Im_Dadbot Mar 17, 2026 +2691
The one in a million thing that everybody warned about and then happened just like everybody warned about?
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ExZowieAgent Mar 17, 2026 +552
One in a million means they did this a million times before. I don’t think it was one in a million.
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nola_fan Mar 17, 2026 +269
The fuze that malfunctioned is manufactured to a one in a million failure rate, and has only prematurely detonated once since it's been used. The investigation doesn't say it's 100% the cause so you have to read between the lines a bit, but it seems like the secret service electromagnetic jammers messed with the fuze in a way that no one anticipated, and the Secret Service didn't disclose exactly what they were doing prior to the event, and also stonewalled the investigation for a bit.
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MrDerpGently Mar 17, 2026 +60
The thing is, a really good reason not to conduct live fire exercises over busy civilian infrastructure is that there's a nearly endless number of impossible situations that happen eventually, generally when you least want them to. There's just no benefit at all to doing it, and an endless number of bad days that all boil down to 'that's impossi... Very improbable!' arguing against it.
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TheSpicyIntrovert Mar 19, 2026 +2
Murphys Law is a b**** that our government doesn’t understand
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OcotilloWells Mar 18, 2026 +4
Not condoning it, but I know when I was in an artillery unit in Germany, there were a lot of firing points that fired over populated areas. I don't doubt mishaps happened, but other than a round landing in a motor pool (I wish I still had the picture of the trucks with holes in them), I want aware of any issues.
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cantproveidid Mar 18, 2026 +27
"but other than a round landing in a motor pool" Other than that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln.
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bagofpork Mar 18, 2026 +7
"Other than the bombs, the Strait of Hormuz is completely open!"
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ExZowieAgent Mar 17, 2026 +133
So it really was one in a million however extraneous circumstances occurred which caused it to fail at a much quicker rate. And those extraneous circumstances were due to their own ineptitude and lack of foresight. That’s almost impressive in a way.
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nola_fan Mar 17, 2026 +37
Probably. The electric part of the fuze is supposed to be in a Faraday cage, so the electromagnetic jammers shouldn't have played a factor, and didn't on other 4 rounds fired at the same time, but that's the only reason that makes any sense. Which is weird because the most likely bad outcome would be human error of someone putting in the wrong charge or aiming the cannon wrong somehow. That happens for more often than 1 in a million, but I'm sure everyone was told the exact info the day before and went slow to ensure it wouldn't happen. The second most plausible failure is it hit a bird or drone or something after arming, because of how sensitive the pd fuze can be once armed. But they had so many cameras they could essentially watch the flight of the round and determined there was nothing in the way. But since you probably don't care about all that, your summary is probably right.
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ExZowieAgent Mar 17, 2026 +13
It really is wild that this bit them in the end if that’s all true. Now I wonder if that failure rate is the real failure rate or the “published” failure rate. There’s a big rabbit hole here.
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nola_fan Mar 17, 2026 +22
Given how long those fuzes have been in service, I wouldn't be surprised if they've been fired more than a few million times, and this is only the 2nd early explosion. But I don't know how the manufacturing malfunction rate is calculated.
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Deflorma Mar 18, 2026 -4
I wouldn’t put it past them to be deliberate about this since the administration hates California
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stevewmn Mar 17, 2026 +1
Was the fuze in pd mode or set as a time fuze? I could see a wrong time setting causing this, though it probably isn't manually set. I would look at bad fuze setting procedures before blaming a 1 in a million malfunction.
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nola_fan Mar 17, 2026 +4
PD. They set it with the computer thingy which name I forget. It would have also had have been set crazy early, it went off barely over a 1,000 meters from the gun line.
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stevewmn Mar 17, 2026 +5
The generic name is inductive fuze setter, and I wonder what could happen if you don't hold it over the fuze long enough to load the right setting. It should be designed to fail in a safe mode, just going dud on impact but who knows.
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nola_fan Mar 18, 2026 +5
In my experience, and it's been more than a decade so I might be remembering wrong or things might have changed, they just don't set
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Why_Hello_hello Mar 18, 2026 +3
Manufactured to one in a million says nothing of the risk for human error either
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Sc0nnie Mar 18, 2026 +2
1). The manufacturer’s claimed manufacturing tolerances simply are not true. 2). Every single member of the military knows that the first rule of firearm safety is that you always keep your weapon pointed in a safe direction. Everyone knows it is completely inappropriate to fire across civilian traffic. Absolutely unacceptable and criminally negligent.
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nola_fan Mar 18, 2026 +1
1) you're guessing based on nothing. 2) Artillery fires over roads from time to time. Marine artillery shoots over around other units during training operations almost daily. Unsurprisingly the safety rules around cannons are slightly different than they are for rifles and handguns. What's even a safe direction when you can possibly shoot up to 25 miles with the right round and charge? That goes doubly true for HIMARS with a possible range of nearly 200 miles. How do you avoid standing in front of the tube when the SOP for removing a round without firing it is getting everyone in front of the gun with a long poll to try and beat it out of the breach backwards? When the gun travels the tube faces the truck towing it with the crew inside of it, pointing right at the entire crew, another obvious violation if you're following rifle rules. They still shouldn't have done this operation, there were much safer ways to show off, but maybe I'm in the minority here, anger should probably be accurate.
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Sc0nnie Mar 19, 2026 +2
1). My claim is based on the indisputable evidence that the shell detonated prematurely. The manufacturer’s claim is the one based on nothing. 2). The safe direction is the actual artillery range without a major highway running through it.
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nola_fan Mar 19, 2026 +1
>My claim is based on the indisputable evidence that the shell detonated prematurely. And you know this happened in under a million uses?
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Sc0nnie Mar 19, 2026
Where did the million number come from? It is pure bullshit made up by the manufacturer with no factual basis.
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nola_fan Mar 19, 2026 +1
You seem like the go-to expert on it. I'm sure you've read the reports, studied the engineering and everything too
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bubba-yo Mar 17, 2026 +22
It doesn't necessarily mean that. To being with, you're not going to fire a million shells in a controlled range and then count the failures. You're going to fire most of those in a live combat situation and you won't even note the failures to take it back to leadership. So routinely calculate these based on expected variables that you control. NASA does this all the time with human rated spacecraft, companies do it via their actuaries to calculate warranty liability on a new product. It's not a measurement, it's a calculation. However, if you don't control for external EM effects, an artillery shell could have a 100% failure rate in the presence of an EM field. The 1 in a million is statistical ass-covering. When the shells were designed they never considered - nor do they care, frankly - about the external effects when firing over an in-use freeway full of cell phones, radar guns, wifi hot spots, all of the GPS spyware that goes on trucks these days, and so on. They don't care about that because they will not in normal operations fire over a freeway with an average of 300,000 vehicles per day. In a war zone, people don't drive to Legoland. The fundamental problem is that someone wanted to swing their d*** and fire over the freeway without taking the political hit for closing the freeway and demanded a set of conditions that the reliability of an artillery shell was never calculated for, and instead of it failing on top of most likely the people they wanted to kill with the shell anyway, it's falling on Americans taking their kid to the theme park. Had they not closed the freeway, it's entirely possible that *all* of the shells would have failed passing over the cars.
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Lopsided-Total-5560 Mar 18, 2026 +7
“One in a million means they did this a million times before. I don’t think it was one in a million.” I think you need to retake that statistic and probability class. Every time the event occurs, it is a one in a million chance of shit going south. It could happen the first time or back to back at a million and one and two. The only thing that matters is over an extended period of time (say 5 million) it only AVERAGES happening once every million times.
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moreobviousthings Mar 17, 2026 +3
It has happened a million times before. This was one of them.
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CarbonMolecules Mar 18, 2026 +2
No, no. Tomorrow it will be called a “two in a million”, or “one in a half million”. Until lunchtime. Then it’ll be “fifteen hundred in a million” or “fifteen in ten thousand”. By Sunday it’ll be someone’s PhD thesis.
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Vandirac Mar 18, 2026 +14
> *Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten* Sir Terry Pratchett.
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adorablefuzzykitten Mar 17, 2026 +5
Were they shooting down more balloons?
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i_do_technical_stuff Mar 18, 2026 +4
A million people warned them it would be a problem. One of them was right.
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ClubHauntedHouseVIP Mar 17, 2026 +12
I got absolutely bombarded by this one dumbass that said they do this all the time and we are all idiots for voicing concerns about this
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OcotilloWells Mar 18, 2026 +8
I went through range safety at Camp Pendleton a number of times. Doubtful it happens "all the time" as it was never covered in the POI. Not saying you're wrong, whoever said it happens all the time is wrong. Also, never saw any marked firing points on the wet side of I-5.
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Hi_Im_Dadbot Mar 18, 2026 +10
Fortunately, one of those idiots was Newsom and he shut he thing down for their dumb exercise.
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obeytheturtles Mar 18, 2026 +3
Obviously this only happened because the shells were too woke.
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Junkstar Mar 17, 2026 +8
He meant to say one cost a million.
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Ok_Breakfast7588 Mar 17, 2026 +2
One million different things could have happened and this was just one of them.
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MrT735 Mar 18, 2026 +2
"Million to one chances crop up nine times out of ten." - Terry Pratchett.
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Silver-Bread4668 Mar 18, 2026 +2
The only reason I came to this thread was for the Pratchett quote.
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ShackOfAllShades Mar 17, 2026 -2
A surface danger zone (area containing all shrapnel, ricochet or secondary effects of ordinance) is defined as keeping the “probability of escapement not to exceed 1 in 1,000,000”. So it’s technically within tolerance if you fire a specific type of ammunition from a specific point 1,000,001 times and have one go haywire.
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RaspitinTEDtalks Mar 18, 2026 -17
You hate DJT so much you can't admit Trump made the 1 in the 1:1M _matter_. Firing over the highway just proved math like science is stupid (did they do it a million times? Duh, no.)
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VegisamalZero3 Mar 18, 2026 +6
Who the f*** said anything about trump?
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RaspitinTEDtalks Mar 19, 2026 +1
Fair enough. I didn't add /s thinking "math and science stupid" made it implicit.
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Aliensinmypants Mar 18, 2026 +3
They love the uneducated 
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spicygumball Mar 17, 2026 +769
I know this is old news but I must've glossed over this detail "A “one in a million” malfunction during a live fire demonstration over Camp Pendleton last October led to a misfire that rained shrapnel on Interstate 5, striking two California Highway Patrol vehicles, a U.S. Marine Corps investigation found. An artillery shell exploded over the highway during a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Marine Corps, attended by Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Pieces of shrapnel scattered on the closed roadway and struck a CHP patrol car and a motorcycle. The day before the event, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom called the demonstration dangerous and unnecessary. During it, he also briefly closed I-5, a main corridor between Los Angeles and San Diego, drawing a rebuke from the White House." Gavin Newsom literally saved lives. Trump would be FUMING if this was pointed out to him.
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1egg_4u Mar 17, 2026 +109
Yo this is actually insane that without that kind of intervention there would have been people under that shrapnel and this headline would be a lot different and that the administration wasnt even the one who shut it down but fuckin gavin newsom of all people did. I dont know why I find it so surprising that kegseth and vance would stupidly risk people like that. Stupidity is basically their MO at this point, but for some reason it is still really jarring that all they had to do was get traffic off that road and they didnt even do that These idiots in charge are so bad at their jobs *they* became the biggest risk to the american people...
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RenoRiley1 Mar 17, 2026 +237
In a normal administration this would lead to high level firings, resignations, and extensive investigations. In this regime it isn’t even in the top 1000 terrible things they’ve done. 
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Traditional_Sign4941 Mar 18, 2026 +34
It's amazing all the small and numerous ways rot spreads down to all facets of the government when the leadership is fundamentally corrupt.
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Th1rte3n1334 Mar 17, 2026 +42
>Trump would be fuming…. Trump is already fuming… 🤣
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Niceromancer Mar 18, 2026 +4
He was pissed off the highway was ordered closer.  Now he's double pissed that omtue order was warranted
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Davoswannab Mar 17, 2026 +15
So Hegseth was involved.
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spency_c Mar 17, 2026 +29
Holy shit this is nuts. The I-5 in this section is nearly always packed being a bottleneck between major cities. Thank god someone had the foresight to close the highway
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prismstein Mar 18, 2026 +2
Balistics hitting friendlies, just like Hegseth's axe throw.
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OcotilloWells Mar 18, 2026 +1
Anyone know where the impact area was supposed to be?
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Abysmii Mar 17, 2026 +341
Here's a better question, why the f*** was anything being fired over the 5 in the first place?
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AdPuzzleheaded1495 Mar 17, 2026 +208
Hegseth was drunk
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CalebsNailSpa Mar 17, 2026 +63
Definitely not 1 in a million
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Oper8rActual Mar 17, 2026 +26
Oh, was it a day that ends with y?
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Degenerate_in_HR Mar 19, 2026 +2
Look, I dont like the guy either. But do you really think its productive to invoke the guys name over every little thing? The secretary of Defense is a political office, that oversees one of the largest single organizations on earth. This is kind of like when conservatives call everything they dont like "communist." It doesn't make you look smart and it just undermines the credibility of people who share your view.
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AdPuzzleheaded1495 Mar 19, 2026 +1
You are absolutely correct. With how fragile their egos are I hope they see how much we hate them, I don't care that they don't care what a peon like me thinks.  It's not going to make a difference other than me feeling better about saying f*** those unqualified pieces of shit every chance I get. I don't care about looking smart, The internet and social media is for me to complain on, if I wanted to do anything to make it better I'd be involved in politics.
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punkasstubabitch Mar 17, 2026 +90
There wasn’t any good reason. I think they said it was for one of these 250th anniversaries but really Hegseth just wanted to f*** with California and make daddy happy.
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ViaBromantica Mar 17, 2026 +1
Heck Seth?
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punkasstubabitch Mar 18, 2026 +1
Yeah, f*** that guy Heck Seth
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thecommexokid Mar 17, 2026 +12
As counterprogramming to No Kings Day
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Largofarburn Mar 17, 2026 +19
Because they wanted to shut the highway down and cause chaos and inconvenience as many Californians as possible.
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Porfyry Mar 17, 2026 +3
But it goes fast and high *usually*
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Ahelex Mar 17, 2026 +12
Imagine explaining to your boss you were late because explosive shrapnel shredded your car on the highway.
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DrunkenSwimmer Mar 18, 2026 +1
Because Camp Pendleton spans across I-5, and if they want to actually do beach assault shit with live fire, that's what has to occur. This isn't the first time, and it's not that unusual for I-5 to close for Marines' training. The only true WTF was the administration not wanting to close the freeway for it.
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TechnicallyCreative1 Mar 17, 2026 -13
I mean Pendleton exists so they won't hear your screams. I live 30m inland and FEEL the bombs off in the distance semi regularly. The windows shake. The stuff they shoot over the 5 is chump change relative to whatever they're dropping from planes
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n0respect_ Mar 17, 2026 +87
Artillery is known for being very stable and reliable. So weird that it was *the very first volley*; that it exploded instead of just being a brick; that it exploded *at just the wrong time* and hit the highway. So weird the federal government didn't close the federal highway. good thing CA found out about this the day of, and managed to close it. Even so, the highway and a cop car was damaged. That could have been real people. So weird the military even thought to do this. When has the US military *ever* held live fire exercises over a highway? Not even in WW2 to my knowledge.
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Niceromancer Mar 18, 2026 +17
Another thing of note is that many Republicans including the white house became angry at the closure.
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peacock4lyfe Mar 18, 2026 +5
They do live fires over the I-70 in New Mexico where white sands missile range is, and missile tests as well. But it’s an area with super low population and even then they shut the highway down during testing and live fires. They also usually do this at like 0600 to minimize the amount of traffic this affects
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n0respect_ Mar 18, 2026 +1
Genuinely good to know ty
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Little_View_6659 Mar 18, 2026 +3
Yeah, with this administration I’m suspicious at everything they do.
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RobutNotRobot Mar 17, 2026 +127
The one that the governor of the state shut down the highway for because of the danger?
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brnccnt7 Mar 17, 2026 +69
Exactly Vance and Hegseth were in attendance and don’t care for civilian safety Sounds like something North Korea or Russia do to show off lol The US military doesn’t need to do this, we can just fly jets over and that’s usually been the go to tradition Much safer too
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1egg_4u Mar 17, 2026 +29
It is insane to me that we are watching the US administration becoming the biggest active risk to the american people These f*** ups are f****** up in really dangerous ways. Who even knows what else is slipping through the cracks because the people in charge dont even have the right job experience and are too arrogant to admit they dont know what theyre doing Im genuinely terrified for what this means for US intelligence and military. The circus is being run by the monkeys except even monkeys are kind of capable and not jam packed full of lorazepam and booze
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brnccnt7 Mar 17, 2026 +8
Agreed, dangerous times Lots of unqualified people running the highest levels of government and military and not listening to the experienced people around them Were in a time where the president is threatening allies like Canada and Denmark Setting back our reputation and alliances, possibly doing irreparable damage
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1egg_4u Mar 17, 2026 +5
Its fucked as a canadian too... we put a lot of faith in our relationship with america and their military. We are in a *fucked* position now that we have to flip on a dime. Our military budget is basically the ICE budget so this is worst case for us that america is needling us
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DirkBabypunch Mar 17, 2026 +4
We use artillery sometimes, for stuff like 4th of July or whenever there's a good excuse for the 1812 Overture, but you don't use live ammo for that.
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Different-Garage8363 Mar 18, 2026 +1
And not over a highly congested highway section.
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kan109 Mar 18, 2026 +1
From the first planning meeting, they wanted to shut down the highway. Not for safety, they just didn't want the vehicles in the background of the propaganda film. Was amazed the planners were so nonchalant about shutting the highway down on two separate days (once for rehearsal and once for the actual event). They ended up only shutting it down the one day.
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--solitude-- Mar 17, 2026 +27
Another asinine decision from Trump and his toadies. If this had been Obama over some highway in Alabama, it would have been playing on Fox News nonstop for a decade. With the orange moron it’s just another outrage in a sea of outrages.
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shoulda-known-better Mar 17, 2026 +32
Yea weren't they bitching about Newsom closing the highway also!? Like good f****** thing he clocked how dangerous this was and shut it down.... Fucks still managed to hit the only people on the road
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DaiZzedandConFuZed Mar 18, 2026 +5
Probably because it’s a gigantic artillery shell and would have hit anyone near that freeway.
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shoulda-known-better Mar 18, 2026 +6
Yea which is why we shouldn't be firing live artillery shell in public areas... The gov and ss wasn't going to shut anything down they gave the gov shit for it after he said it was dangerous and shouldn't be done.... There is zero f****** reason that was the place that needed to happen at all... For malfunction reasons just like this!which they were told before hand....
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Brew_Wallace Mar 18, 2026 +11
How many times does Hegseth have to say it, the Department of War does not care if they harm civilians
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TortieTactics Mar 17, 2026 +10
> It is manufactured to a tolerance of one defect in a million,” according to the report. Investigators ruled out any negligence or wrongdoing by Corps members jfc, one out of every million ordances malfunctions and we were just shooting them over civilians? should be noted that the only reason the damage was limited to two patrol cars is because the gov of cali deemed this dangerous and ordered i5 closed.
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Subject_DA Mar 17, 2026 +20
They didn't have to use actual explosive rounds right?... right?
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Reviews-From-Me Mar 17, 2026 +7
And yet, they were warned before doing it of the danger.
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WhyIsItAlwaysADP Mar 17, 2026 +7
1 in a million, eh? At least someone has some common sense: "The day before the event, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom called the demonstration dangerous and unnecessary. During it, he also briefly closed I-5, a main corridor between Los Angeles and San Diego, drawing a rebuke from the White House."
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NaGaBa Mar 17, 2026 +5
A million to one NORMALLY. However, with this fuckwit administration in place, a 1 million percent chance of happening
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GroundsKeeper2 Mar 17, 2026 +6
Didn't this happen during a military parade with the VP? Like, *recently?*
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Nandulal Mar 18, 2026 +1
1 in a bajillion or two
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Majestic-Assholes Mar 17, 2026 +7
Incompetent assholes as far as the eye can see
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Cute-Calligrapher-50 Mar 17, 2026 +9
I was a medic in the reserves in the 90s we were at Camp Grayling in Michigan, the national guard unit there for annual training miscalculated and shot a 105mm shell 2 miles over the target and it landed in a couples yard and sent shrapnal through their house. So it happens. Not a good look though.
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Julian_Thorne Mar 17, 2026 +27
I think it's more likely that a right-wing nutjob was trying to send a message to a blue state
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mtb443 Mar 17, 2026 +8
Ah yes the “it was just an accident” defense.
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TylerBourbon Mar 17, 2026 +8
One in a million type terrible events sure seem to happen a lot while Trump is President.
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grimmtoke Mar 17, 2026 +3
According to the rules of narrative causality, a million-to-one chance is practically a certainty. If it had been a thousand to one chance, no way it would have happened.
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Opening_Pizza Mar 18, 2026 +3
Million to one....3 or 4 planes just crash or hit by friendly fire, a carrier just spontaneously combusts....
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ConformistWithCause Mar 18, 2026 +3
So you're saying there's a chance?
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Hellstorm901 Mar 18, 2026 +3
Just a reminder that it was the governor who ordered the road to be shut and the White House attacked him for it saying he was trying to scare people, they also said the road was perfectly safe and even used him closing the road to imply the governor was a traitor trying to undermine the military
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ViolettaQueso Mar 17, 2026 +2
Haha. President Newsom was right.
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Davoswannab Mar 17, 2026 +2
Seriously the report couldn’t have been edited or stretched to get past 666 pages?!?
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manoteee Mar 17, 2026 +2
This is what was said about the space shuttle exploding in the Challenger report. Feymann was consulted and he said the odds were closer to 1 out of 4. His note was put in the very back of the report lmao.
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LotsofSports Mar 17, 2026 +2
Well, when you got rid of the people that knew how to do things and replaced them with a drunk and his yes-men, you get this c***.
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TOMC_throwaway000000 Mar 17, 2026 +2
Oh this is about the time back in October By the title I thought it happened again and was like “I don’t think you can call it one in a million if it keeps happening”
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BurnerAccountForSale Mar 18, 2026 +2
So you’re saying there is a chance?
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Everyoneheresamoron Mar 18, 2026 +2
The Iranian False flag operation kinda blew up.
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billyrubin7765 Mar 18, 2026 +2
Bull. There shouldn’t have been live fire over the interstate. That was negligent.
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MarphoPolo Mar 18, 2026 +2
Hmm, one in a million failure? Or numb nuts Private Pyle set the fuse wrong. What’s more likely?
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TheBracketry Mar 18, 2026 +2
Who could have guessed shooting over a freeway was a stupid idea? Except everyone.
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phosdick Mar 18, 2026 +2
Giving the minimal intelligence in that small mind of Hegseth, at the very top of our military, I'm sure they got the math wrong... more likely it's a "one out of five" malfunction.
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blankvoidoid Mar 17, 2026 +4
Tangerine tyrant trying to take news coverage away from all tne "No Kings" protests that day. Good job, donzo, for that little stunt. Also, a 666 page report to say "it's not my fault"? Hell, Han Solo did it in 1.5 seconds
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Yahobo420 Mar 18, 2026 +2
We knew this several months ago when it happened. That’s why people were pissed, the government didn’t take account of this or accountability, well now that it has passed and no one remembers.its a train wreck and the 25 should be pressed
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Special_Loan8725 Mar 17, 2026 +1
Completely forgot about this
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MrBond90s Mar 17, 2026 +1
Did they do it a million times?
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JARVISS1011 Mar 17, 2026 +1
One in a million still means it happened. Lucky no casualties this time.
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FifteenthPen Mar 17, 2026 +6
> Lucky no casualties this time. Thanks only to the CA government having the sense to close the stretch of freeway down during the exercises against the wishes of Trump and his cronies.
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tapdancinghellspawn Mar 17, 2026 +1
Surprised Stephen Miller didn't blame Iran or Palestine for it.
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Y0___0Y Mar 17, 2026 +1
Whoever wrote that report is a guy who probably dry fires pistols at his own head and laughs and says he checked the chamber so it’s fine it’s like a one in a million chance there’d be a bullet in there
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SBEPTY Mar 17, 2026 +1
Lot of one in a million events last 18 months
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TodayIEarned Mar 18, 2026 +1
Everyone involved in this should be dishonorably discharged
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TheStLouisBluths Mar 18, 2026 +1
Million to one shot doc. Million to one.
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thirtyone-charlie Mar 18, 2026 +1
So you’re sayin there’s a chance
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Parking_Syrup_9139 Mar 18, 2026 +1
Fortunately for everybody they made sure to fire a million rounds
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nomoreusernamersleft Mar 18, 2026 +1
Ok. One in a million chance. WTF are you thinking anyway.
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wingfan1469 Mar 18, 2026 +1
As the military fires its 1,000,001st shell across the highway...
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killerkadugen Mar 18, 2026 +1
Why is this administration so geared towards running headlong into disaster. Newsom (and anymore using common sense) warned of this as a possibility. The White House event got mad at Newsom for taking steps to keep people out of harms way.
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rusty_programmer Mar 18, 2026 +1
> A “one in a million” malfunction during a live fire demonstration over Camp Pendleton last October led to a misfire that rained shrapnel on Interstate 5, striking two California Highway Patrol vehicles I don’t know how it is in socal with Highway Patrol, but if this was norcal I don’t think *any* sensible person would give a f*** including other LE.
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Niceromancer Mar 18, 2026 +1
I distinctly remember trump saying Iran would hit California not that long ago, they also got Incredibly mad when the governor ordered the highway this shrapnel hit closed. Weird.
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Vashsinn Mar 18, 2026 +1
[1 in a million chance](https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=spe_mHH8uB1kNgsV)
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earle27 Mar 17, 2026 +1
So, as a former artillery man, this actually is pretty f****** weird. I’ve never heard of a fuse functioning that preemptively. Failure to function (a dud) isn’t unheard of, but pretty uncommon. I wouldn’t advise shooting artillery over an interstate but I’ve seen sketchier stuff done safely. If anything it’s surprising the round didn’t go short or long. Usually if something fucks up on a shoot like this it’s the wrong charge so there’s too much or too little propellant and the round goes long or short. Like I said, I’ve never heard of a fuse just deciding “f*** it” and functioning early like that. I didn’t see if it was a proximity fuse (variable time/VT), but I almost imagine it sensing something jn flight and that triggering it? I know a lot of armchair experts in here are throwing blame around a lot but this isn’t really a “gotcha” thing. Newsom was smart to close the highway. Whoever was running this op should have done that and I can’t fathom why they didn’t. This type of dog and pony show is old shit though, as old as armies. As far as shooting over a highway. Meh. I’ve shot at some of the artillery ranges in Europe and those were sketchy as f***. We’re lucky to have big training areas, there was one exercise in Poland where the impact area had to be cleared afterwards because it was part of a natural park, or so I was told by some of the USAEUR guys. You can do a lot to control the risk, but this type of thing you just can’t control for.
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JMA4478 Mar 17, 2026 +1
Imagine being a proctologist, and a client comes in: You know, doc, I was getting some tan, naked on top of my house, laying on my belly, and then this piece of metal goes up my arse. 1 in a million shot, doc, I tell you. 1 in a million!
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bishop883 Mar 17, 2026 +1
So your saying there's a chance!
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croutonianemperor Mar 18, 2026 +1
Turning america into a war zone for no reason other than profit
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Investolas Mar 17, 2026
I would welcome a movie created by AI in the theme of Clear and Present Danger, or, Executive Authority, where, in the era the film is produced, the Vice President defies the Presidents authority and, on a routine trip, find's themselves under fire on a highway in the homeland. While the true ending of the movie would be classified, it would be great to see Kurt Russell land the plane that is USA one more time and somehow involve the supernatural and existential into a plane of torture and pain that is so well documented on our plane that there is never again a question of why you do not take advantage of others. It's because none shall forget, for as long as time, even as Earth's humanity propels into further frontiers, the atrocities committed by Zionism. And none shall leave this place until it has been made clean of it.
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Halberd96 Mar 18, 2026
Imagine Newsom bringing this up in a presidential debate with Vance in 2028 and how Vance's spokesman scolded Newsom for saying this would happen and it did.
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DoubleHurricane Mar 18, 2026
The military is so good at sounding intelligent, efficient, and action-oriented as they describe how they have no f****** idea what’s going on or why it’s happening or what to do about it
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Knees0ck Mar 17, 2026 -1
Kinda weird to bring this up again after the after the FBI's totally real "Iran is gonna attack California specifically."
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happy-cig Mar 17, 2026 -1
Wasn't this last year? 
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AccomplishedBrain309 Mar 18, 2026 -1
Could you imagine a million Hegseths. It would be like an ants nest that decided to live in the middle of the road.
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Throughthelookinlass Mar 18, 2026 -1
I'm breaking news: The U.S. Marine Corps has declared war against California LEOs! The revolution is now. /s 🥺
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