Save the Navy jokes. I am ex-Navy.
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Not everyone in the military (any branch) is comfortable with loaded weapons. Most of the combat arms guys are good since they shoot more than once a year to qualify. Once you leave the combat arms MOS's you never really know what you are going to get. Anything from the only time they have fire a weapon was at boot camp all the way to been shooting since before they could walk. In the Air Force and Navy (excluding PJ/SEALS and MP's) you don't even fire weapons at boot camp (if they do it is just for familiarization).
The military is made up of society. It has gun lovers and even some who do not like guns.
A late friend of mine told me a little story about that. He was in the Navy in the '50s, and during boot camp, he was supposed to qual on the M1 Garand, the 1911, and the Thompson SMG. On the day they shot, they took them out to a range in a small valley, crossing a plowed field to get there. After the lectures, they started shooting. After he got to shoot the Garand but before he even got to handle the other two small arms, it started raining, and they loaded everybody back into the buses so they could un-ass before the buses got stuck (remember the plowed ground?).In the Air Force and Navy (excluding PJ/SEALS and MP's) you don't even fire weapons at boot camp (if they do it is just for familiarization).
Not everyone in the military (any branch) is comfortable with loaded weapons. Most of the combat arms guys are good since they shoot more than once a year to qualify. Once you leave the combat arms MOS's you never really know what you are going to get. Anything from the only time they have fire a weapon was at boot camp all the way to been shooting since before they could walk. In the Air Force and Navy (excluding PJ/SEALS and MP's) you don't even fire weapons at boot camp (if they do it is just for familiarization).
The military is made up of society. It has gun lovers and even some who do not like guns.
Wrong. Every single person that goes through AF boot camp shoots. Whether they qualify or not is another story.
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