[mojaveman]

While a very young Military Policeman on my first overseas tour I think that I was more afraid of my cohorts than I was of anybody else. In eighteen months I witnessed no less than six negligent discharges. In only one incident was anyone injured. A young PFC was playing with his M1911A1 while he was sitting at a desk bored and fired a round through his calf. In all of the other cases the weapons were either fired into the air or into the ground. Looking back on all of that I think that more scheduled training might have helped the problem. We were on a tiny base in central Europe and didn't have access to a range so we never even had a chance to actually work with and fire our weapons.