Posted on 09/07/2003 10:44:18 AM PDT by Prodigal Son
I don't want to bust on the soldier. Lord knows that was said under duress but I would point out the soldier was male, not female.
Instead, we got to fire two whole magazines through M1911's, which were converted to .22! Oh, and your final score was NOT recorded, and you could "opt out" if shooting bothered you (no one did, fortunately).
We were told that if we needed to be armed heavier, we would recieve appropriate training at that time. It was 6 years before I got to qualify on the Beretta pistol (having over 2,000 rounds through my own .45 helped), and TEN before I was trained on the shotgun, with only ten rounds fired. Good thing I grew up bird-hunting.
Two things: Guess who was President then, and could incidents such as the COLE disaster have been prevented?
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