| by comrade commissar | Thomas | @ Sunday, May 15, 2005, 2:04:00 PM | permalink |
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Things we have fired off in the past week: Small Arms M16S1 Ultimax 100 Mark III (SAW) SAR-21 Pyrotechnics Matador (LAW) M18 Claymore mine Bangalore torpedo M203 HEDP rounds Pen gun signal flares Handheld Illumination rounds We ended off the week with a Section Live Firing Exercise. What that means is a whole day spent of which sections of 7 men simulate real combat conditions by running side-by-side one another down pre-assigned lanes (marked out with tires) , firing live ammunition (not fun at all, trust me) at specific target boards. Throughout all this, you will have to shout above the din of the rat-ta-tas and the bang-bangs to ensure that your fellow guys are following proper training procedures, in line with the rest of the section, and therefore not shooting hot metal right up your behind. We did 2 shooting sessions, a day one, and a night one where we got to fire tracer rounds. Watching these babies at work in the dark is like watching a Star Wars spaceship dogfight. Definitely a "Whoa.. Cool." moment. Even at this point, I haven't got over the fact that everyone survived  He almost swore that at one point he had rounds whizz past him on both sides. I didn't bother to tell anyone else about my own story after I heard this one. We were dead tired by the time we finished and arrived back at our company block at 2am. But since we had to clean our weapons of built-up carbon from all that shooting, we settled down at the training sheds, (large permanent shelters) took out our cleaning kits, and got to work. You would think that after a week of handling a myriad of ammunition and pyrotechnics we were transformed into a league of hard-balled roughnecks. We screamed like toddlers when swarms of mayflies in mating season stormed our area, attracted by the light. We never cleared out from an area so fast before. |
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