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To: dragnet2

When my brother was in the army he told me he would go a long, long, time between going to the range.


37 posted on 03/19/2012 7:11:11 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (I just don't like anything about the President. And I don't think he's a nice guy.)
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To: Vermont Lt
Your brother was right.

Hell, when I was in the military, I shot my pistol maybe 10x per year, and just a few clips. That was it.

Everyone needs to ask themselves, when was the last time Department of Homeland security, fired even 100 stinking rounds during the course of their careers, in a real life situation?

Has DHS as a whole, in totality, even fired 100 rounds in a fire fight?

I must have missed it.

43 posted on 03/19/2012 7:20:35 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Vermont Lt

I believe that ALL Army members have to go through annual ARMS qualifications every year.

I served in Army bands and had to qualify in physical fitness as well in rifle quals and I also had to go through the gas chamber every year along with yearly qualification on whatever instruments I was expected to qualify on.

That last item was especially interesting because I had to qualify as a Euphonium/baritone player as well as on tuba which was my major. I never played baritone in the band although I did play trumpet and French Horn as well as tuba.

The army expected all band members to qualify on a secondary instrument and baritone was more likely than either french horn or trumpet to be the secondary instrument.

The two bands I was in, 5th Army at Ft Sheridan Illinois and the 74th Army band at Ft Benjamin Harrison Indiana also had to go through a yearly qualification unit wide.


87 posted on 03/20/2012 3:52:57 AM PDT by dglang
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