"When we shoot the curl, we really shoot the curl!"
Posted on 08/06/2021 9:29:42 AM PDT by UB355
Aug. 06, 2021 - 4:02 - Army Lt. Amber English talks about her experience at the Tokyo Olympics
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A good skill for shooting down drones.
Shouda sent Dick Cheney.
I remember my father telling me that part of the training for aerial gunners was shooting skeet, first stationary and then from the back of a truck going around an old race track when he was training at Kileen AAF, Texas during WWII.
My neighbor told me the same thing. He got really good at skeet but the war ended before he finished flight school
"When we shoot the curl, we really shoot the curl!"
All but one of our freak show women’s soccer team knelt before their final match.
In Contrast Lt English is proud of her country.
Army? I thought the USAF had the best trap and skeet ranges...
And I only say that jokingly, but I played golf with an Air Force E9 who was a ringer. He came from Alaska and I asked him how he kept his golf up while stationed in Alaska and he said they have a video golf range on Elmendorf and he took lessons there, and plenty of time for practice swings. He played a darn good round and I was rather impressed.
“Shoulda sent Dick Cheney.”
Eliminate the competition and win gold by default.
I saw a WWII training film once that taught the gunners to aim behind the target, at least under certain circumstances, but I never understood why. Do you have any idea why?
Unfortunately, I don’t know the answer. I remember him talking about needing to “lead,” i.e. aim in front of the plane he was going to shoot at, but never what you mentioned.
Perhaps it had something to do with the ballistics of the gun and bullet. I remember about needing to aim above a distant (300+ meters) target to hit it because of the bullet drop. That was in basic training, nearly 50 years ago.
The only reason I can think of that might make sense is that maybe the enemy fighter has slowed down due to some maneuvering and the bomber, and its gunners, are now overtaking it, so that a hail of bullets would hit the fighter as the bomber swept past.
Seems like that would be rare though.
yeah because you want the bullet to meet them where they will be, not where they are when you fire
“”When we shoot the curl, we really shoot the curl!””
From the movie that never gets old, “Top Secret.”
“All but one of our freak show women’s soccer team knelt before their final match.”
Did they win?
“The only reason I can think of that might make sense is that maybe the enemy fighter has slowed down due to some maneuvering and the bomber, and its gunners, are now overtaking it, so that a hail of bullets would hit the fighter as the bomber swept past.”
This is correct. When overtaking a slower target it is sometimes necessary to shoot behind (the target).
But, it depends.
believe they won and ended up with a bronze
That photo is apropos because it almost certainly was shot at the Ft Benning skeet & trap range while the movie “The Green Berets” was being filmed there. Apropos because Benning also is the home of the Army Marksmanship Unit, to which Lt. English is assigned. If you check the historic results from the Olympics you’ll see that competitors from the AMU usually give a good accounting of themselves.
And the shotgun, unless I’m very much mistaken, is a Remington 1100 12-ga. I guess the Duke forgot to bring his Greener doubles with him.
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