Posted on 10/06/2016 11:46:28 AM PDT by PROCON
The Army’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program, which has delivered military training at colleges and universities since 1916, has been ordered to tape their guns in high viz orange for safety.
The news, reported by The Washington Post this week, comes after incidents where students and faculty have mistaken drills by cadets with inert guns as dangerous active shooters.
Now, under the orders of Maj. Gen. Christopher P. Hughes, the 250 Army ROTC units and 700 affiliates will conduct on campus training with simulated weapons (using empty hands mimicking carrying guns) while taking extra precautions in transport and storage of inert drill rifles– including applying orange tape.
“Due to the national increase of workplace and campus shootings, our training requires increased coordination, on and off-campus, with appropriate authorities to enhance our safety and minimize misperception by civilian populace or local authorities,” Hughes said in the new policy.
Meanwhile, in Russia…
Just let them just go into battle with peace and love in their hearts. </typicalliberal>
Is this like experimental aircraft?
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So if a real shooter puts orange tape on his gun, what are the disarmed sheeple going to do?
Ugh.
I’m thinking of painting the muzzles of all my EBRs dayglo orange.
Bullshit. There's no mistake ... these worthless pajamaboys and snowflakegirls are deliberately SWATting the ROTC. They know full well it's the ROTCs and not "active shooters". They're lying.
“Worried about the orange tip on MP Megatron? Just Remember it could be much, MUCH worse...”
http://mattmoylan.deviantart.com/art/Lil-Formers-MP-Megatron-43397486
Sign of the times; better just issue them squirt guns.
Sooooo ... it isn’t against the law to paint the tips of real guns orange, is it?
ROTC on our local college campus was performing color guard drill practice using inert M1s and someone called in an active shooter report to campus police.
Yeah, that guy in the chrome helmet is going to shoot up the place.
In the `60s when I was 12 and 13 I carried a Browning .22 down the street and out of town for target shooting, and a Chinese bolt-action carbine my Dad brought back from Vietnam to school for show-and-tell.
Way to go `rats. I don’t recognize this country anymore. The frightened barnyard fowl have taken over.
Go TRUMP! Win win win.
Oh I see... so if you see a gun with ORANCE on it, it is fake and you shouldn’t worry
That will sure outsmart the terrorists!
I had my medics prepare for the EFMB with a road march every Friday afternoon for weeks. My admin officer dug up a bunch of rubber M16s. I wondered what the point was. I am certain they were not cheaper, it wasn’t like there weren’t plenty of real ones around.
I think the poster makes a good point, the next jihadi can just put orange tape on his weapon and the uncertainty just could buy him a few additional kills.
I think it would make more sense to find all the dimwits who mistook ROTC exercises for active shooter situations and wrap them (the dimwits, not the ROTC) in high viz orange tape.
It’s likely they’re morons in other areas of life as well. This way we all would be able to tell in advance who they are.
You make a good point about the SWAT-ing but many of these snowflakes have a real panic attack when they see a firearm because of their indoctrination.
I just saw a recent photo from my college ROTC group. The flash suppressors on the ‘Rubber Ducks’ were painted orange.
Yeah, the order is for ALL ROTC groups....amazing!
The tone of horror with which he said "guns" can't really be replicated in writing ...
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