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US Marine Corps Force Recon Missions [Enduring Freedom]
Marine Corps Gazette ^
| October 2002
| Capt Philip J. Treglia
Posted on 10/02/2002 9:31:49 PM PDT by VaBthang4
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To: Prodigal Son
At KD couse, no one clears your malfunctions or jams. The shooter does. If the shooter correctly demonstrated the procedures for malfunction (tap, rack, bang), and it is determined the malfunction was not the shooters fault, then you MAY get an alibi to shoot the string again. Of course, if you piss off the range NCOIC then you won't get jack.
I've seen shooters be denied alibis for simple things like not having sufficient CLP on the bolt.
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posted on
10/03/2002 12:22:28 PM PDT
by
fogarty
To: kellynla
"The great things a man does appear to be great only after they are done. When they're at hand they are normal decisions and are done without the knowledge of their greatness"
Geroge S. Patton
To: VaBthang4
Third, the Marines on the line all talk about audio exclusion and giving a nonstandard response (multiple rounds to the enemy’s chest) to each of their targets before immediately moving to head shots on the subsequent targets. The Marines shot what they were conditioned to fire, and the 5.56mm round will not put a man to the ground with two shots to the chest. Why I'm a big fan of 30-06
To: fogarty
What a lot of guys used to do, if for whatever reason they had a round or two left over they'd pull them out of the mag and leave them on the firing point for the next man who would slip them quickly into his mag- then he had a couple extra rounds to bust at the 300 meter target. Mostly, it seemed to be guys who "had to qualify expert" (for promotion points to make SGT).
I never had a problem shooting and never took this route. LOL! I apparantly needed glasses the whole time I was in- when we shot, the 250 meter target and greater always looked like a little green smudge that I could barely see and I still managed to nail 'em most of the time. It was only after I realized that it wasn't just that all the movies in the theaters that were always out of focus but my eyes that I went to the docs and got a prescription. I was amazed at what I could see after that.
At any rate, I never had anybody correct a malfunction for me- that's why that caught my eye.
To: flyer182
"Green Berets" wasn't a title either...
To: Frumious Bandersnatch
Who cares about the army and their preoccupation with colored hats
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posted on
10/03/2002 1:31:29 PM PDT
by
flyer182
To: Frumious Bandersnatch
Hmm...my pops was a Recon Marine and I have never heard that phrase.
To: flyer182
How very un John-Waynish of you.
To: VaBthang4
I first heard the term when I was based out of Guam in '75.
To: Frumious Bandersnatch
John Wayne was sent home from boot camp.
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posted on
10/04/2002 8:17:25 AM PDT
by
flyer182
To: Husker24
"What is a Marine Ranger?"
During WWII there was Marine Ranger Bn, it is a term from the past.
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posted on
10/04/2002 11:41:14 AM PDT
by
SERE_DOC
To: VaBthang4
The use of iron sights will get our Marines killed. This seems unsettling ....
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posted on
10/04/2002 8:55:23 PM PDT
by
Ken522
To: VaBthang4
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