This was a rather bossy U.S. Army Major who we were tasked with protecting. Long story short she thought she was pretty hot stuff and fully equal of any of the people who were on her protection detail. We ended up in a remote province at a place where the locals were only being friendly to our faces and there was no doubt they were insurgents once they were out of our sight.
This hot shot Major, who insisted that she was just as capable somehow managed to get roughly 80-100 miles from the main U.S. base without a magazine in her sidearm (her only weapon) and no spare mags. Basically she was totally incompetent.
Funny thing is, none of us had any spare mags for her, as we don't carry Berettas.
Another Big Army Classic!
First I was discreetly trying to get these soldiers attention. We had been loaned out to provide protection/overwatch (I won't go into detail why the conventional Army and others need to be protected...)
Anyways, I was trying to tell the blonde SGT shown in the center of the pic that they cannot just leave their weapons unattended in their vehicles, since were were in a small town in a province in a Iraq and they were just asking for the iraqi police to steal their weapons or have them used against them. It was not a matter of IF, it was only a matter of WHEN some Iraqi grabbed one.
I was trying to be discreet, so as not to embarrass her. She thought I was motioning for her, because I wanted to hit on her..
The other thing I wanted to tell her was that as an NCO she was not exactly setting a great example since her 82nd Airborne patch was on UPSIDE DOWN....
I think I will pass on getting my weapons training from the conventional Military...
Military-Intelligence at work... Mac, you have a keen eye for weapon stupidity’s 😎
Curiosity Killed the Cat & The Prairie Dog “Molon Labe”
I believe its a manner of holding your firearm at the ready as you move and percieve threats
Gun tight to chest, elbows at 45, muzzle down.
Trump HAD the World, ", Trump saw our children, " Trump saw a way to make a brighter day so he started giving There was a choice he was making, he was saving our own lives Its true he made a brighter day for you and me. --Trump WINS 2016
OR you could do something novel and use your brain and THINK!
Don't point your gun at things you don't want to put holes in.
The lead instructor from my old outfit, who came from a special mission unit, summed it up perfectly. He said "We need Thinkers who are Shooters and Shooters who are Thinkers."
It is as simple as that.
Use your brain. No fugging dance steps, or putting your thumbs together to try to look high speed (because you look like a trained [bleep] IMNSHO).
I don't know how many times over the years I have used that phrase: "We need Thinkers who are Shooters and Shooters who are Thinkers".
It really gets right to the point, and even today when I am looking for a new shooter to hire for the organization I work for, I am really looking for that balance.
The bottom line is, you don't need to put your thumbs together "just so", you don't need to do pivots or twirls, while looking over your shoulder at imaginary bad guys.
You just need to use you brain and skip the theatrics
Sadly though, theatrics sell classes, and people have a hard time separating what is essentially live action role playing (AKA LARPing) from reality.
Plus some people think if they are pivoting and twirling that others will think that they are "switched on". Personally I think you look like moron.
That could be a whole other discussion though.
THE CHAIR IS AGAINST THE WALL.
The Tikka T3 in .308 Winchester is the Glock 19 of the rifle world.
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