[Screaming_Gerbil]

It still - 44 years away - pisses me off to no end that in Marine Corps Boot Camp I fired "Expert" in every pre-qual shoot....but on actual qualifying day, I hiccuped and only made Marksman; didn't even make Sharpshooter...

Pretty much the same thing a couple of years later, just before I got out (woulda been worse, but I was a short-timer) it rained and my eyeglasses got all gooed up and I actually was a Non-Qual.

It was (1974-1978) 28-32 years ago for me (my how time flies) from boot camp to the final time I qualified with the rifle (M16A1 for me).

I always shot Sharpshooter, except my very last time I shot a Marksman (toilet seat). So my old khaki uniform shirt and green uniform coats now forever have a "toilet seat" on them.

I wore glasses myself, and had the problems associated with wearing glasses myself.

Just goes to show how these things could have worked out in real life I guess...

[ErnBatavia]

I had all my stuff tucked nicely in a "civilian" footlocker in a loft of an apartment garage, and one day it was alllll stolen. The only thing I have left is one Corporal chevron and one pisscutter...............the rest ended up in the hands of some 'south of the border' neighborly type.

I could go postal if I continued to think much more about all of this..................

PS - in 1966, we qualified with M-14......I still want one, even tho I couldn't afford to feed it. Great piece of work, that weapon.