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Thread Author Statement of Explosives Background

Screenshot of a social media thread in which the author states his background as a USMC explosive breacher

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A wide screenshot of the opening of the thread, in which the author sets out the basis for his claim to expertise. In his words: I have experience working with explosives from my time in the USMC, I was an explosive breacher and an assault section leader specializing in Urban Mobility Charges, ie making holes in walls, blowing up doors, etc.

The statement is doing specific work in the argument. Everything that follows in the thread — the anchoring reasoning, the Monroe effect claim, the PETN figures, and the blast-velocity calculation — rests on the reader accepting that the author knows how directional charges are built and used. Recording the claimed credential is therefore part of recording the claim.

The background is self-reported and has not been verified. Nothing in the thread has been independently checked, and expertise in building charges would not by itself establish that a charge was used in this case. This is one of four screenshots of a thread by @cletus_jethro, a user identifying himself as a former U.S. Marine Corps explosive breacher, reshared on June 21, 2026 by @matt82704417. The thread proposes that the concealed charge was not in the lapel microphone at all but inside a crucifix pendant, on the reasoning that a charge must be anchored to be effective and that a heavy silver box chain around the neck would provide that anchor while a clip-on device on a shirt would not.

The claims are presented as the authors analysis and opinion, not as established fact. No explosive device of any kind has been recovered or identified in this case, the official finding is a rifle gunshot, and researchers who dispute the physical premise are documented separately. The full thread with its calculations and the objections to it is on The Exploding Pendant — Shaped-Charge Crucifix Theory. See also Mic vs Pendant, Demo of Shape Charge, and Microphone — The Exploding Mic Theory.

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