We were training on ready up drills this afternoon. I'm honestly scared for my life. I admit that I'm not the most proficient at marksmanship skills but goodness I know the basics... muzzle awareness, safety selector switch, etc. We had LT's flashing others while turning towards their targets, turning the selector switch to semi before facing the target. Need I continue...
Muzzle awareness is highly stressed in this environment, rightfully so. When were given the initial instruction for the ready up drills, we were told to get in a circle. So when we drew our weapons up to the ready, we all pointed our weapons towards each other.... Well, I refused pull my weapon all the way up to the ready, because I don't want to point my weapon towards another student. I was yelled at, but I believe that I was correct by not pointing my weapon at a person. We should have all been in a line and pointed our weapon in a safe direction, i.e. towards the building.
We went to the familiarization range in the morning. I thought that I had a firm handle on target acquisition, I aimed at the target, fired at the target, the target didn't go down. Apparently everyone had the same difficulty. There were holes in the target so even if we were right on target, the target didn't pop down. Everyone was highly dissappointed.
Tonight we are going to a night fire range. We are SP'ing from the company at 1600 (hmmm, still daylight for a few hours).
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