Sir, you must have been an officer in the military (or you are currently). No self-respecting NCO or joe would support such rubbish. Oh and the way you think that only you can have the relevant experience. You know, college and all.
The hidden motive is that shaping the targets like anything else makes no sense. When you have an m-16 in hand then it is clear you are training to shoot at people rather than say equipment (which that weapon is sorely inadequate for). It would be silly to learn how to aim "center mass" on any shape other than human. Learning to shoot center mass on a rectangle doesn't make you better at shooting humans. I think someone is digging to deep into this one. If you're going to shoot people you need to practice on the shape.
When I went through Boot/OSUT, it was made quite clear that we were learning to shoot to kill people. There was nothing subtle about it.
Hehe when I was going through Scout school down in Kentucky in '99 we used a nintendo 8-bit with a rifle attachment and it simulated the rifle range before actually wasting money on ammo. It certainly wasn't realistic, but it did help with getting the sighting down properly.
I'm not sure it made us more likely to kill anything, but I'm willing to bet it was the 4 months "kill" cadence that did that.;)
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Sir, you must have been an officer in the military (or you are currently). No self-respecting NCO or joe would support such rubbish. Oh and the way you think that only you can have the relevant experience. You know, college and all.
They get a discount because they own Souls(tm).
The hidden motive is that shaping the targets like anything else makes no sense. When you have an m-16 in hand then it is clear you are training to shoot at people rather than say equipment (which that weapon is sorely inadequate for). It would be silly to learn how to aim "center mass" on any shape other than human. Learning to shoot center mass on a rectangle doesn't make you better at shooting humans. I think someone is digging to deep into this one. If you're going to shoot people you need to practice on the shape. When I went through Boot/OSUT, it was made quite clear that we were learning to shoot to kill people. There was nothing subtle about it.
Hehe when I was going through Scout school down in Kentucky in '99 we used a nintendo 8-bit with a rifle attachment and it simulated the rifle range before actually wasting money on ammo. It certainly wasn't realistic, but it did help with getting the sighting down properly.
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I'm not sure it made us more likely to kill anything, but I'm willing to bet it was the 4 months "kill" cadence that did that.