[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"Hackworth pulled the weapon off the body and fired off a round."

I would hope the late Hack cleared the barrel before he fired of a round from a weapon that had been buried directly in good old Vietnamese soil.

Michael Frazier

[denydenydeny]

I don't have the book (Steel My Soldiers' Hearts) handy, but I only recall him saying that he picked it up, pulled back the handle to ready it for firing, and then fired it.