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To: yarddog

Actually Oswald was an UNQ or an unqualified rifleman, he later just barely made marksman. He was a lousy shot.


54 posted on 01/03/2006 7:38:04 PM PST by usmcobra (30 years since I first celebrated The Marine Corps Birthday as a Marine)
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To: usmcobra
Actually Oswald was an UNQ or an unqualified rifleman, he later just barely made marksman. He was a lousy shot.

I thought I had read that somewhere too. Wasn't sure but glad you pointed it out.

60 posted on 01/03/2006 7:45:36 PM PST by yarddog
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Again, shouldn't we be comparing Oswald with the general populace here instead of with other Marines? He may have been at the bottom of the barrel in the Marines, but was he not arguably a better shot than the average Joe Schmoe walking the streets in Dallas, Texas, that day? And does the fact that he didn't measure up as a shot compared to other Marines make it metaphysically impossible for him to, starting out with one cartridge already chambered ... that is another fact that a lot of people overlook; people think he had to work the bolt three times during those few seconds, but it was really only two ... hit a completely open, slow-moving target three times (although he missed the first shot; that's another fact people don't consider when pooh-poohing the single bullet theory) at a range of between 170 and 265 feet with a rifle equipped with a 4X scope?


61 posted on 01/03/2006 7:45:37 PM PST by GB
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