My first qualification
I shot expert with a couple of those ancient M16a1s; they were certainly accurate enough for the job.
Your comment about "pencil qualifications" drew a laugh. On my visit to Ft Bragg EVERYBODY had to qualify before we could get the heck out of there. I had coached a female E4 from Corps Finance through qualifying Sharpshooter with an unzeroed rifle using Kentucky windage, but we had some Navy personnel who couldn't hit the broad side of anything for love nor money. On about their fifth trip out to the firing line the solution ended up being a fat old Infantry captain on the adjacent firing point knocking down targets for them. Fast forward a couple of months downrange, and these Navy folks were serving as my battalion commander's security detail. Fortunately they never got into anything serious...
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- M16 reliability and growing pains... -
Byron,
2016-07-28, 11:37
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- A lot of pogues and poseurs out there. We call 'em out - Hobie, 2016-07-28, 12:50
- no design is perfect... -
Slow Hand,
2016-07-28, 16:17
- no design is perfect... - Harry O-1, 2016-07-28, 17:57
- no design is perfect... -
Sarge,
2016-07-29, 07:00
- I like that one! - Slow Hand, 2016-07-29, 09:59
- Well now... -
Byron,
2016-07-29, 11:18
- Well now... - Sarge, 2016-07-29, 12:31
- My first qualification -
bob,
2016-07-28, 20:03
- Pencil Quals - Slow Hand, 2016-07-29, 05:28
- Too good to keep down.... - Byron, 2016-07-29, 06:55
- My first qualification - mcassill, 2016-07-30, 08:26
- "As well or better than anything else out there" - mcassill, 2016-07-30, 08:14
- Born in 1955 here -
Bob Hatfield,
2016-07-30, 12:13
- I hear that... -
rob,
2016-07-31, 20:36
- I hear that... - Bob Hatfield, 2016-08-01, 18:24
- I hear that... -
rob,
2016-07-31, 20:36