Personnel never remove the positive safety pin from the M16 AP mine during live-mine training. Instructors inspect fuses and mines for serviceability before starting practice. Instructors inspect mines and their components for damage and excessive wear after each student has gone through the station. Replace the mine and the fuse if damage or wear is found. Ear protection is not permitted in the arming bays.
Instructors post guards at all entrances to the range.
The guards communicate with the RSO by radio, wire, voice, or signal. Instructors keep mine records and inventory sheets. They maintain accountability of all mines and fuses, before and after each exercise. Instructors clearly mark the word LIVE on all live mines and their components that are used for live-mine training. Live mines are maintained separately from practice and inert mines.