2 yrs in ROTC and then basic as draftee. We took apart and cleaned M1 rifles. But most of us never touched a bullet, never touched an ammo clip, never went to the rifle range.
In Vietnam (mostly in Pleiku) we in the base camp were issued rifles. But when I went on guard duty in the tower on the perimeter I only had a rifle. No ammo. I had a phone wired to a base response center. I was to phone I n if I saw anything beyond the fence.
I did KP, like most everyone in the base camp. The cook pots were much smaller than the ones I had in the college cafeteria where college coeds and us guys in the kitchen did all jobs interchangably. Indeed, the guys not working in the kitchen described the lifting of heavy pots of food as “womens work”.
I was in the Army and was expert in basic, and I did KP in the Army and saw the commercial sized pots.
What years was it that the Army didn’t train soldiers in using weapons?