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Navy Recruiter shoots himself with his own weapon. Negligent Discharge.
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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 2773034" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>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?). </p><p></p><p>Scheduling doesn't allow them to return to the range, but later he discovers that the Navy had declared him qualified on all three.</p><p></p><p>Fast forward a bit. He finds himself at Treasure Island (I think that's what he said), and his name is called for walking a high-security sentry beat. This, he said, meant you walked from one post to another, and if you didn't show up at the next post on time, they came looking for you with guns drawn.</p><p></p><p>So he shows up at the gun locker to draw the weapons he'll carry that night, and is issued a 1911 and a Thompson. At first, the Chief didn't believe him when he said he didn't know how to operate them ("the Navy says you're qualified"), but finally gave him some rudimentary instruction on how to operate them. Even with that, he said he'd have been in big trouble if the Russkies had tried to come ashore while he was on sentry duty, 'cause all he could've sent downrange with any effectiveness was harsh language...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 2773034, member: 26737"] 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?). Scheduling doesn't allow them to return to the range, but later he discovers that the Navy had declared him qualified on all three. Fast forward a bit. He finds himself at Treasure Island (I think that's what he said), and his name is called for walking a high-security sentry beat. This, he said, meant you walked from one post to another, and if you didn't show up at the next post on time, they came looking for you with guns drawn. So he shows up at the gun locker to draw the weapons he'll carry that night, and is issued a 1911 and a Thompson. At first, the Chief didn't believe him when he said he didn't know how to operate them ("the Navy says you're qualified"), but finally gave him some rudimentary instruction on how to operate them. Even with that, he said he'd have been in big trouble if the Russkies had tried to come ashore while he was on sentry duty, 'cause all he could've sent downrange with any effectiveness was harsh language... [/QUOTE]
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