Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to 15 Things Europe Perfected But The USA Did NOT" video.

  1. War ordinance problem in US. THEY MUST BE KIDDING. Most likely only ordinance left by US own military training areas. Compared to Europe, then US has not had any significant war on home soils. In Europe they still have very regular finds of unexploded bombs, and even mines turn up regularly. They still keep hundreds of people employed in disposal, some not even in military service, just public employed. Especially dangerous are building sites in cities and industrial areas where buried bombs are revealed regularly. Even in residential areas they still turn up bombs. Opposite my grandfathers home a house was blown up in WW II, blowing out the windows of granddad's home. While clearing the rubble another unexploded bomb was found in the remains of the basement. All reconstructed a family grew up in the new home. Yet in start of 1970s, so over 20 yrs later, the home was sold, and a new family moved in , and undertook house extension. In digging a larger basement, as part of extending the home, another unexploded bomb was uncovered, a over 500lb bomb so quite substantial size one. It was disarmed, carted away and exploded in marsh land. It was certainly very capable as it left a sizable hole. Bombs and mines also turn up on farmland and while most are removed safely, or controlled detonated in place, some still cause injury and deaths. During one of my work trips the press reported the death of an elderly bomb removal specialist. He had retired, but was called out to help one more time, to a bomb found on reconstruction of a large department store in Stuttgart. Sadly his young companion having only small number of disposals done, compared to the old man who had history of hundreds disarmed, The companion appeared to make a mistake, recorded by video taken at the job site, and both were sent to heaven. I really would think ordinance on Alskan Island would not be huge quantities, unless US military used the islands for military training and target practice. But never bothered to clean up. Hardly some foreign war remnants. We have in Australia military proving/training areas too with some ordinance around. I have a couple of 4WD trips that had permits to cross through a naval target range on NSW south coast. Strict rule DO NOT LEAVE THE DIRT TRACK AREA. NO DRIVING AWAY FROM THE TRACK, DO NOT GO WALKING AWAY FROM THECTRACK FOR NATURE CALLS OR ANY OTHER REASONS, I.E. PICK WILD FLOWERS. We even got to see shells half buried within 100m of the track, among various blow-up holes in the ground. Even saw metal fragment on the track on one trip.
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