TITLE:        Soldiers Boiled Their Bullets During the Afghan War ♨️
CHANNEL:      The Art Of War  (@theartofwarrr)
URL:          https://youtube.com/watch?v=RIvF99ANxt0
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HOOK (first 3 seconds spoken):
They dumped their ammunition into a pot of boiling water before selling it to

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FULL SCRIPT:
They dumped their ammunition into a pot of boiling water before selling it to the enemy in 1988. You see, because the Soviet soldiers were starving, they started trading live rounds with the Afghan merchants for food. And every meal they got put more weapons in the enemy's hands. That's when they started boiling the bullets, believing the heat could degrade the gunpowder inside. This caused many of the exchanged rounds to misfire or even explode in the enemy's hands while the Soviets enjoyed the fresh

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TIMED:
[000.08] They dumped their ammunition into a pot
[001.84] of boiling water before selling it to
[003.60] the enemy in 1988. You see, because the
[006.32] Soviet soldiers were starving, they
[008.08] started trading live rounds with the
[009.68] Afghan merchants for food. And every
[011.60] meal they got put more weapons in the
[013.52] enemy's hands. That's when they started
[015.44] boiling the bullets, believing the heat
[017.12] could degrade the gunpowder inside. This
[019.12] caused many of the exchanged rounds to
[020.80] misfire or even explode in the enemy's
[022.80] hands while the Soviets enjoyed the
[024.40] fresh
