They should have done this 40 years ago........
Great tagline! I always respected the Marine mentality, even though I prefer "Hooah" to "Oorah"
Heh, ever heard what "Marine" stands for?? (My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment.)
They did when I was in 2nd Marines. I remember several days straight of COMBLOC weapons training. AKs, RPKs, SVDs, RPG simulators, various sidearms, grenades, landmines, artillery munitions, etc.
The light weapons were all 7.62x39 and 7.62x51R, except for one static display of an AK-74 in the newer cartridge that there was no ammunition for.
They did.....we got ours OJT
We did do it...23 years ago. I taught the class.
They did. At least in the 3/1 of whom I belonged. I can still field strip one pretty licketysplit.
Been done for decades......US Army taught / teaches a multi service school called the foreign materials intelligence school at Aberdeen MD...... I attended many times . Just an outstanding class. Fisrt class training. Weapons of the world per se...Sino soviet, chicom , warsaw pact, NATO and 3rd world weird was taught with many a day on the live fire range.......
The key to the classes were that ya send some NCO's 'n Officers and they take the knowledge, captured weapons and lesson plans back to their units and spread the training and knowledge.
BTW the classes were not limited to just "weapons"...communications gear and vehicles to include light and heavy armor and light trucks etc ....
I was on active duty in the early 1980's and we were fam firing Soviet weaponry back then....this is nothing new in the Marine Corps.