Posted on 01/29/2019 8:37:38 PM PST by Oatka
The Instructor, a retired Navy SEAL, spoke with a quite, steady and commanding voice: “Load one nine round magazine, lower the hammer, place your weapon on safe, re-holster, and raise your right hand when you have completed these actions.”
Clear and concise. Each of his ten students followed these commands. Soon ten right hands went up.
“Now lower your hands, and listen to the following directions. I will give these directions twice, and only twice.”
He then enunciated how his students were to draw their weapons, engage targets, how many rounds to place on each target, when to perform a combat reload, and when to indicate they had completed tasks.
This was the student’s final day of a very long course titled “Weapons and Security Training for Mariners.” Most mariner training is fairly straightforward, and though often demanding, students expect to pass if they show up each day and pass the multiple-choice exams.
This course was different. Many of the students, if not all, were wondering if they were going to pass. It was mentally and physically demanding. That was obvious from day one.
“You have one hour to memorize, verbatim, the four rules of firearm safety. Here they are,” and he gave them each a printed card with the rules.
“Meet back here at 10:00, not 09:59, and not 10:01, at 10:00 and you will write these four rules on a piece of blank paper. If you get them correct, word for word, you will continue, if not you can go to the admin office and see if you can get into another course, now get out of my classroom.”
(Excerpt) Read more at gcaptain.com ...
A good read for any shooter.
Ping
It belongs in bloggers, Oatmeal.
stfu. your schtick is getting old. have you written any original material you would like to share. Post up something besides random bitching, its getting old...
“Post up”?
Yeah, I’ll get right on that.
Thanks
That was a great post, thanks!
Ed
Interesting!
Great post. Thanks for posting it here, otherwise I would have never found it. I am now going to the blog, and if half decent, I will add it to my blogroll. Best Regards.
Great read. Thanks for posting!
It’s been moved to bloggers, Oatmeal.
There was another childish liberal who had an unnatural fetish with a southern vegetable, calling me okra.
Apparently, yours is a breakfast cereal.
I guess that's not as bad as a fetish about Donald Sutherland.
Or something.
Donald Sutherland? I thought that was you spotting a blog pimp.
What movie is that from?
The 1978 remake of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers
That's the way they reacted when they spotted someone who wasn't "one of them".
So he’s a “Snatcher”?
I never saw that film!
Something I will remedy this weekend.
I never saw that film!
Something I will remedy this weekend.
Do a back-to back viewing by starting off with the black and white 1956 version
The cool part is that the remake started out with the same actor doing the same closing scene in this version. A nice nod of appreciation to a cult classic.
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