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You Navy guys do this?
On 11/23/2017 2:21 PM, Bill wrote:
wrote: On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 05:20:40 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 11/22/2017 6:51 PM, wrote: On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:44:56 -0500, John H wrote: We did CS (tear gas) but never did the pepper spray drill: http://www.military.com/daily-news/2...y-3-years.html Nothing like that in the Coast Guard and the Norfolk cops did not have spray. They just beat the **** out of you. The Coast Guard now does pepper spray as part of side arm qualifications. My grandson recently went through it. I am really not surprised. They have changed from a search and rescue operation to a police force. I suppose that is really just a throw back to their roots. They were originally enforcing federal import tax laws and stopping smugglers in "Revenue Cutters". That is probably the service that changed missions the most in the US over the years. When I was there we were doing missions that the Navy should have been doing and that started in WWII, continuing up into the 70s. I had a shield on my sleeve but I was really in the Navy Reserve. The CG does not even have FTs now from what I can tell. What was an FT? In the Navy it's the Fire control technician rating. Unlike what the name implies it has little to do with firefighting. It has everything to do with the maintenance and repair of the various weapons and gun controls on the ship. Now-a-days it's mostly computer related. |
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