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Kinda proud ....
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On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 02:32:16 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: John H. wrote: On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 15:39:06 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: wrote: On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 20:08:35 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: wrote: We didn't really have guard duty, we had fire watch. I remember my first night there I saw a guy wearing a cartridge belt walking around and thinking he was a guard. My first thought was "I could take that guy". A couple nights later I was wearing the cartridge belt and walking around ;-) Same thick with air force. They explained making you wear the cartridge belt made you under arms and more liable if you screw up. There were not any live rounds on our side of the base and our drill rifles did not have firing pins in them. I am not quite sure what arms we were under. ;-) We had the belt. That was all. We wore the belt, canteen, ammo pouches and toted a real M-14...but no ammo. Air Force basic we only handled firearms on two days of 6 weeks. One day of inside, raining, safety and dry fire. Next day at range. In pouring rain. Our basic had "range week" in week 12. It was M-1 and if you qualified fast enough, you got .45. I did both. It did not seem that hard because it was huge targets at 200 yards for the rifle and the standard GI bullseye at 25 (maybe less) yards for the .45. I think if you got them all on the paper you qualified. I don't remember a score. The whole thing seemed to be more about firearm handling and range safety than marksmanship. I don't think we ever fired a round until the 3d day. Most of the M-1 stuff was inside with our non-functional drill rifles. They went through the loading process, safety, basic marksmanship principles (sighting, positions etc), safety, cleaning, safety, range rules and then a little more safety ;-) It wasn't until I got on my ship that my chief actually taught me how to shoot a 1911 well. That was his favorite gun and I came out of there knowing more than I needed to about the 1911. I can still field strip and reassemble one blind folded in about a minute or two and to a detail strip (looking) in 3 or 4. We used M1 carbines. We marched and marched, but no weapons required. |
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