A few of my friends did it because they were frustrated they got no formal firearms training from the Navy. I'm in a god damn armed service, but the Navy has never let me touch a weapon. The Marines get this part of the equation right in OCS/TBS.
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- Thread starter arcdu07
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That's gay. I mean it's their money, they can spend it as they see fit, but seriously that's super-gay.
Marines also get bad haircuts, digging and sleeping in fighting holes, and plenty of other suck to go with it.
Just saying that I'd probably get something out of doing the course other than a couple of medals. Not that the medals really matter to me.
I'm one of the cool guys with 3 medals. It's an ensign superiority complex for me.
I meant weird that a guy in town has the juice with PERS. I know companies like XeWater and the like have sanctioned courses for other types of quals for the military, but I'm surprised something as simple a shooting qual can be done in town. Makes me wonder why I can't go to the range with a bunch of other people and our civilian weapons and ammo, shoot a course, and then say we're all good for ribbons.
This. I finally got a chance to do a pistol qual a couple months ago. Even then, the training we got beforehand was just to make sure we could operate the pistol safely and without shooting ourselves or our buddies, not to shoot well. As someone who has never handled firearms beforehand, I would love to be trained to be a good shot.
Yeah, I found it kind of odd how that works too. I also found it odd that 'Big Navy' would pay for us to shoot 20-30 rounds at OCS instead of just giving us the 50 to get the qual done.
The numbers are still being crunched, but there is evidence to support a trend of those Navy SNAs with shooting medals/qualifications finishing with higher NSSs than those without. They think it has something to do with the attention to detail required in shooting having a correlation with the attention to detail required in flying.
You can get an award for firing the gun. It's called a SOD and you get it when you accidentally strafe a spotting tower.
You can, as long as someone has an RSO qual from the military.
Yeah, heard about that one. Didn't like that whole class attrite for one reason or another or something crazy like that?
I don't think so. Word on the street is that he got sent home from det, then pressed.
I did the shooting with Captain Ron and got both my Es. It is a little expensive but we shot for probably 6 hours which was a blast. We counted and he had 20+ different guns that he let us shoot. You also get the necessary training to get your Concealed Carry Permit here in Florida.
You mean, your military ID card or DD-214?