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Internet Wizard posted:The Corps is the one organization in this world that could make Davy Crocket qual something people don't look forward to. They turned witnessing the raw power of matter turning into energy into a forced march. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz9g_rl2JnU
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Something about that video just makes it more real. In most nuclear test footage it's just a static camera looking at the explosion. People actually being there and it being a handheld camera was crazy.
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Internet Wizard posted:The Corps is the one organization in this world that could make Davy Crocket qual something people don't look forward to. They'd make you ruck march the whole launcher and warhead, along with extra parts and a full combat load 16 miles to the nuke range, then do a FOD walk in the blast area to make sure no bomb pieces are still there to ruin an IG inspection that's never coming
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Booblord Zagats posted:They'd make you ruck march the whole launcher and warhead, along with extra parts and a full combat load 16 miles to the nuke range, then do a FOD walk in the blast area to make sure no bomb pieces are still there to ruin an IG inspection that's never coming "Schedule says we're here till 5, I don't care if everyone is done, that's what we're doing"
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Booblord Zagats posted:They'd make you ruck march the whole launcher and warhead, along with extra parts and a full combat load 16 miles to the nuke range, then do a FOD walk in the blast area to make sure no bomb pieces are still there to ruin an IG inspection that's never coming Better police up that range afterwards.
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"But, sir, the radiation won't dissipate for another three months--" "NOW, private."
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The General is coming tomorrow, so you need to repaint all the concentric circles around the bomb site.
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Honestly, eating a shitload of fast neutrons seems preferable to some of the range poo poo I've heard on here.
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Booblord Zagats posted:They'd make you ruck march the whole launcher and warhead, along with extra parts and a full combat load 16 miles to the nuke range, then do a FOD walk in the blast area to make sure no bomb pieces are still there to ruin an IG inspection that's never coming All of this for the XO and PSGs to qual, because they have only four warheads. You get to shoot a sim Crockett.
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LostCosmonaut posted:Honestly, eating a shitload of fast neutrons seems preferable to some of the range poo poo I've heard on here. why read about it when you can watch it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AJhyaX6J9k ps this chinese nuke test vid is way radder than ours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mULZzwtPM2U
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:why read about it when you can watch it? bang! bang bang! bang! god drat i am glad i didnt go infantry
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I love that loving music
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Deathy McDeath posted:I love that loving music right, it reminds me of basil poledouris score on conan, which is probably my favorite movie
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:ps this chinese nuke test vid is way radder than ours That whole documentary is great. Shatner does some good narration.
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ded posted:bang! bang bang! bang! I would tell bang with a full mag because gently caress cleaning my rifle for three hours so the commander can check a block. Or I would yell stupid poo poo. Like mock machine gun sounds because "I'm SF sir, we use full auto."
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*picks up a rock* FRAG OUT
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Cole posted:I would tell bang with a full mag because gently caress cleaning my rifle for three hours so the commander can check a block. I liked to shout "Pew! Pew!"
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From my facebook feed  
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Zeris posted:From my facebook feed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAEiI_x71Ko
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That guy got no face, that's creepy.
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Pesticide20 posted:I liked to shout "Pew! Pew!" I got kicked by the DI and called a pussy because I said "Pew! Pew!" instead of "Bang! Bang!". e: One time we were running a mortar conversion course, and had a bunch of French guys brought in from the neighboring brigade to pad out the numbers / qualify them instead of just sitting around in garrison. One of their NCOs was a Mexican guy who got accelerated promotion because of time served in the Mexican Marines or something. He spoke no English and terrible French. The first night at the Z-Lines before heading out he almost burned his eyebrows off while fiddling with a Coleman stove. After firing for a couple hours, the Safety Officer got a call from Range Control saying we were dropping rounds way outside of the impact area, and almost hitting the highway that runs through the Training Area, and is open to civilian traffic. Well, the safety officer hikes out to the firing position and notices that the tube that the Mexican guy was in charge of is several hundred mil off, pointed in entirely the wrong direction. He had apparently not understood the information from the CP and just laid his tube on what he *thought* was the correct bearing instead of asking for confirmation. He wasn't charged but his 2IC, who had been trying to point out the mistake and correct it was. Easier to charge a Corporal I guess. Frosted Flake fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Dec 6, 2015 |
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Frosted Flake posted:I got kicked by the DI and called a pussy because I said "Pew! Pew!" instead of "Bang! Bang!". were you ffl or something?
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:why read about it when you can watch it? I dunno, running around and actually shooting at random popup targets seems kinda fun.
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at the date posted:I dunno, running around and actually shooting at random popup targets seems kinda fun. seems fun until you have to do it for hours on end. range 400 loving sucks
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:were you ffl or something? Sadly, no. 
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at the date posted:I dunno, running around and actually shooting at random popup targets seems kinda fun. It's never fun, especially when you have to redo the entire thing because the PL decided to do his bold flanking maneuver from the entirely wrong direction. Ranges are loving gay especially when they're basically dog and pony shows where you go to x,y,z berms and shoot at 1,2,3 popups. Also all the stupid safety considerations which make you second guess whether or not I will get yelled at for shooting a popup 5 feet in front of my face in the woods, then you get yelled at anyway.
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Can't say I can argue with the safety considerations too much because there are people in the military that are god damned terrifying with weapons, and not in a good way.
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Mustang posted:Can't say I can argue with the safety considerations too much because there are people in the military that are god damned terrifying with weapons, and not in a good way. Had a really cool range with the Army this last AT; we're only a detachment of about 50 people, but the instructors treated it like a big boy range, and no one got hosed up. Had a coffee brewer going, tunes blasting, and the only injury was the LT smashing his finger on the known-distance target risers (not his fault, weight fell off the thing). I attribute it being to the fact that we were treated like adults, with the four rules being reinforced prior to each day, and command training soldiers as if they will be deployed with weapons and ammo AT THE SAME TIME. It was really refreshing. Even opened up the steel popper range for fun firing on the M9. Love being a nasty girl some days.
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Wasabi the J posted:
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:seems fun until you have to do it for hours on end. range 400 loving sucks my range 400 experience: sit in turret, shoot 30 rounds, sit in turret, eat
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:my range 400 experience: gently caress off the edge of my dick
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The next time I go to a range is to go to one of those ones in Nevada where I can rent an Uzi for a half hour and not have to clean it afterwards.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:The next time I go to a range is to go to one of those ones in Nevada where I can rent an Uzi for a half hour and not have to clean it afterwards. I went to one of those and rented an mp5k. It kinda sucked because the gun was tired as gently caress. Jammed a lot, magwell was loose as hell and one of the magazines had to be held in to the gun hard to fire at all. Booblord Zagats fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Dec 7, 2015 |
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Outside of iet, I have only been to the range once in the 3 years I've been in... Works for me.
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Kansas did some pretty good ranges, at least to the point that it felt like you didn't have someone breathing down your neck and it was very "to the point." You got on the range, you got to fire pretty quick, then you were done. We had a shooting competition which involved a lot of stuff like running up a hill to your rifles and shooting at falling plates, a 9mm range with steel targets, and a long distance shooting range, all while being treated like an adult. Until some female airforce chick almost blasted off her foot at the 9mm range, literally had it pointing to the ground and discharged a round during the instructions phase. Never had another shooting competition again. 
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MurderBot posted:Kansas did some pretty good ranges, at least to the point that it felt like you didn't have someone breathing down your neck and it was very "to the point." You got on the range, you got to fire pretty quick, then you were done. That's a shame. We're the instructors just not aware that you're not supposed to give airmen guns or what?
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Reverand maynard posted:I really wish the military would just fire individuals instead of dumbing ranges down This is the worst part about the military. Sometimes you have to fire someone but it's not possible.
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