On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 13:42:56 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:
On 2/25/2018 1:20 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 11:14:45 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:
On 2/25/2018 10:58 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
Today's Navy includes more extensive training in firearms evenĀ* in
basic training.
How extensive?
Certainly not as extensive as the Marines or Army recruits but more than
I experienced back in 1968. Navy recruits today must qualify with a 9mm
(Glock) and a shotgun, although according to my son and son-in-law they
also used a M4.
https://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/navy-weapons-qualification-course.html
All of the Coasties I see on the water are carrying a sidearm and you
have to qualify to do that.
My grandson recently passed his qualifications for boarding team member.
The qualification process is more than just being issued a Glock with
authorization to carry it. It's more like attending a police academy,
learning all the pertinent laws and rights of those boarded.
He's currently underway on his cutter doing drug intervention patrols.
Just left GTMO and a liberty call in San Juan. Should be back home in
April sometime. Looking forward to hearing of his adventures.
Yeah those guys doing drug interdiction are hard core. I have dealt
with both. The guys who ride along with the sheriff on holiday patrols
(BUI and life jackets) wear a side arm. The night the guys in the RIB
rolled up on us in the dark they had 1 guy with an M16, a guy with a
shotgun, a guy on the M60 and the coxswain with a sidearm.
They started feeling pretty silly when it was two 60 year old guys, on
the "Butt Ugly" with a little black dog. They tried to say we couldn't
have come from where we said we did but then decided they were done
with us after a wet Dachshund mix had boarded them and was "marking"
all of their stuff. They threw the dog back on my boat and said we
could go. They followed us for a while until we disappeared into that
place we could not have come from.