|
Perishable skill
The one thing other instructors and I joked about at the Guard Sniper School was you figured out pretty quick who pencil whipped their rifle qual when it takes a class of 25 two hours to zero an M24.
It wasn't a Guard specific problem either. We had plenty of AD guys come through with multiple deployments under their belt who'd lost some of the basic fundamentals.
We'd end up spending the entire first week on the range reteaching things students should have already been doing, while trying to teach them how to shoot movers.
Unfortunately, we didn't have the time or resources to implement an M4 zero and qual to the POI or get Benning to add it when I worked there.
Thanks for the info Longrange. PM inbound.
__________________
"Think where man’s glory most begins and ends. And say my glory was I had such friends." —William Butler Yeats
"We are now engaged in a great...War, testing whether this nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure."
Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg
"When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the
scabbard."
- General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
|