Happiness is a warm MG...
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Maybe, but it sure as fugg ain't doing gun drills every hundred yards on a gravel road.
Hearing "gun up" and slamming down that stupid tripod until your knees and elbows were raw is NOT happiness.
But, I guess those were cold MGs......
Lol!!.
What were you guys doing to get messed with like that doing crew drills .
Who fugged up in the sqd???
BTDT .
Ever do the 4 up and over with a 60 or ride a harley with one.
Lol!! Good times.
Several times in my past.
I would pcs somewhere and inherit a wpn sqd.
That the previous WSL basically didnt do schit with.
I E basic crew drills.
Basic offensive and defensive employment.
Lead gun assault side
Trail gun Loa side.
Rates of fire
Guns talikng to each other.
Fughing range card......
Just basic schit that the crews werent taught.
Cant blame the joes .
They are only as good as their sqd ldr.
Tactics, employment, level 20 and 30 maintenance schitt you can do outside of deadlining your gun.
How to keep your schit running.
Several times in units I got tasked to train other platoons WSL,s
Wasnt because they was not smart.
But maybe like a young line squad leader moving up to wpns sqd
Constantly was OIC on Battalion and Bde 60, 249 , 240 Javelin gunnery ranges.
Actually had talks with company commanders, 1sg,s, bn cmdrs, bn csm,s.
I can run all the Mg and AT ranges and show others how to run em over time shadowing em, just task others to run m4 , m203, m9 , grenade ranges ect ect ect.
At one point in 327th.
I was a E6 WSL and my PSG SFC Droesch were literally the only 2 range Qualified Nco,s in the Battalion for a period of 6 months.
Due to Billy Boys cutbacks on everything.
Had plenty of NCO,s in Battalion waiting to get certified.
But Billy cut the funding for the civilian contract instructors.
You wanna talk about getting fughing tasked out
Fughing running the Battalions ranges.
Had ta be done.
I didnt approach it like a dick.
Approached it like schitt needs to be learned and done correctly not half azzed.
I had some schitt hot wpn sqds.
You can tell when your soldiers wanta suck up knowledge and be good at their jobs.
Never forget some of those soldiers .
make em my line safeties on ranges.
No one in chain of commands ever fugged with me or questioned what I was doing on ranges.
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Passing on of knowledge and experience been going since valley forge.
