Her spiritual (and perhaps actual lineal) granddaughters haven’t forgotten that there may come a day where every man and woman will again need to fight in defense of their homeland. Something we should probably be teaching our kids in the US but don’t.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrxjYfl05ek
Male and female Russian freshman and sophomore high school students demonstrate their abilities in field stripping and assembling their national infantry rifle.
Fwiw, I’m old, old, now but when I was in HS we had/maintained/fired M1 Garand rifles at our private school & the school had a rifle team that actively competed with other schools.
(The public schools in our district also closed the schools for the first days of deer/duck season, too.)
A BETTER/more intelligent time, IMO.
Yours, TMN78247