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To: alarm rider

Oh, I don’t know. Just read the CO’s bio. He’s had a lot of staff jobs that would have had him rubbing elbows with some very senior admirals. Given that this was a stray 3-shot burst of an M-240, and no damage was done, I figure that this will stop with the sailor (and maybe his immediate supervisor if it’s shown to be a training issue).


28 posted on 10/29/2009 12:48:56 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: Tallguy
Oh, I don’t know. Just read the CO’s bio. He’s had a lot of staff jobs that would have had him rubbing elbows with some very senior admirals. Given that this was a stray 3-shot burst of an M-240, and no damage was done, I figure that this will stop with the sailor (and maybe his immediate supervisor if it’s shown to be a training issue).

The most dangerous thing in the world is a Sailor with a firearm because he likely doesn't know how it works. The closest I ever got to one in back in NTC SDiego boot camp back in '67 was a Springfield 1903 with the firing pin removed...though I did have some real experience with real ones in SERE school (but cannot claim to be a very good marksman). Sailors then were best at working the sliderules that Marines couldn't figure out in a thousand years--I suspect the same is true today with higher tech gear.

29 posted on 10/29/2009 12:57:13 PM PDT by meandog (Is OWEbummer the antichrist?)
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