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I used to love getting a new staffer or ossifer come into my armory and want me to teach them the Berreta in five minutes or less. I loved the look on their faces when I seemed to look at that pistol and had all the pieces on the table in front of them. I'll tell you why I'm not a big fan of the midnight muchies raids on the chow hall later though.
I'd be mighty glad to hear that :)
I got deployed to a little hostile area called Bosnia and being under Clinton's rules well you get the idea of how much fun it really was. We had a ******* from I think it was West By God, that thought he could throw a knife and stick it. What I haven't mentioned yet was the fact that we had a path 20" or so wide that was well marked. This path led from the barracks to the chow hall and to the head. If you looked off that path you could see these little three pronged devices sticking up all over the place. There was a piece of plywood that had been propped up in this mine field, and our intrepid moron finally got close enough to it without anyone close enough to talk him out of doing something stupid like throwing his bayonet. Well he did and it didn't stick. That blade bounced out into the mine field and set off a few of them. Fortunately, the worst injury sustained was a piece of shrapnel in the butt. If you have never seen an anti personnel mine go off then (it was a bouncing betty type that went first) then you haven't lived. Most of us decided then and there that straying off that little path was a real bad idea.
+10 for darwinism
Oh yes we got our point across to that moron. I'm all about learning the old ways to do things like knife and hawk throwing, but I realize that 1 I can't throw anything to save my life, 2 I know when and where a good time to try that is, and it's not in the middle of a mine field in a hostile land, 3 the old ways are still valid and may indeed save your butt sometime (despite what those who out rank you might think, another story for another time though) 4 just because some one had more rank than I did doesn't mean they know WTF. Sorry for that rant, my time in Bosnia has made me harsh and cold.
My time in Iraq did the same. Its alright.
Thank you for your service guys. You have made us proud. It is because of you that we still have our liberty and our rights, not the least of which is the right to bear arms.