CountryBoy19
Grandmaster
Well guys, it's been a while in the making, but I figured I'll spill the beans now that the time is approaching where I'm going to be extremely busy etc.
I've volunteered to do a 6 month deployment (DoD civilian) to Afghanistan for field expedient support of our Special Forces Soldiers. I started training 2 weeks ago, and will continue training for a couple more months before deployment.
You will probably see several other "related posts" now that I've spilled the beans.
Some posts you will be seeing:
A review on the Sig 516 rifles that we used in training.
https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/long_guns/159963-review_sig_516_rifle.html
A review on the guys that did our hand-to-hand combat, range training, and quals.
https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...al_evolutions_morris_dynamics_evansville.html
Anything else I see fit.
So far we've completed the hand-to-hand combat training and firearms training.
Our firearms training class ranged from 1 guy that had never shot a gun in his life, 1 that had only shot a 22 once upon a time, all the way to myself (pretty experienced), 1 Green Beret (just came home from Afghanistan and chose to go contractor instead of re-up), 2 Rangers, several other average military guys, and several guys in our program that have already been down-range.
Out of all of those, I was pretty impressed with myself on the range.
The one handgun day my supervisor (16 yrs combined military experience and gun enthusiast) and a few other guys like him were there. We had a "draw and fire" speed competition on some knock-down poppers. I came out on top of all of them (including the SF soldiers). The next day we qualified, I was the highest qualifier with 169 of 176 possible points in handgun.
Rifle, I don't recall my exact score or placing in qualification but due to a MAJOR failure of the Sig 516 rifle I had just prior to qualification my replacement was hitting 10" high at 50 meters and I couldn't tell until we moved up to the 25 meter line. I still qualified "near" the middle of the group even though all my 50 meter shots were high. Had I not had that issue I likely would have topped out the group in rifle quals as well because you could clearly see a beautiful group 10" high where I was shooting at 50.
The surprising thing was that the guy that had never shot before actually did quite well, easily in the top 70% of the class. There were a few guys that "talked the talk" before the class but couldn't "walk the walk". And a few very modest guys that didn't do any talking, they just let the shooting speak for itself. There were a few people I thought I had pegged as non-shooting types that actually did quite well.
I'll keep this thread updated as we go along, but the next month of training isn't going to be nearly as fun or exciting. Just basic CAD, machining, welding, construction, electrical etc training so that we can support our guys when we're over there. I don't expect that training to be very difficult because I have experience in all of those areas.
After that there will be more fun involved, which includes a full 3 weeks of armorer's training at Crane Small Arms.
I've volunteered to do a 6 month deployment (DoD civilian) to Afghanistan for field expedient support of our Special Forces Soldiers. I started training 2 weeks ago, and will continue training for a couple more months before deployment.
You will probably see several other "related posts" now that I've spilled the beans.
Some posts you will be seeing:
A review on the Sig 516 rifles that we used in training.
https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/long_guns/159963-review_sig_516_rifle.html
A review on the guys that did our hand-to-hand combat, range training, and quals.
https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...al_evolutions_morris_dynamics_evansville.html
Anything else I see fit.
So far we've completed the hand-to-hand combat training and firearms training.
Our firearms training class ranged from 1 guy that had never shot a gun in his life, 1 that had only shot a 22 once upon a time, all the way to myself (pretty experienced), 1 Green Beret (just came home from Afghanistan and chose to go contractor instead of re-up), 2 Rangers, several other average military guys, and several guys in our program that have already been down-range.
Out of all of those, I was pretty impressed with myself on the range.
The one handgun day my supervisor (16 yrs combined military experience and gun enthusiast) and a few other guys like him were there. We had a "draw and fire" speed competition on some knock-down poppers. I came out on top of all of them (including the SF soldiers). The next day we qualified, I was the highest qualifier with 169 of 176 possible points in handgun.
Rifle, I don't recall my exact score or placing in qualification but due to a MAJOR failure of the Sig 516 rifle I had just prior to qualification my replacement was hitting 10" high at 50 meters and I couldn't tell until we moved up to the 25 meter line. I still qualified "near" the middle of the group even though all my 50 meter shots were high. Had I not had that issue I likely would have topped out the group in rifle quals as well because you could clearly see a beautiful group 10" high where I was shooting at 50.
The surprising thing was that the guy that had never shot before actually did quite well, easily in the top 70% of the class. There were a few guys that "talked the talk" before the class but couldn't "walk the walk". And a few very modest guys that didn't do any talking, they just let the shooting speak for itself. There were a few people I thought I had pegged as non-shooting types that actually did quite well.
I'll keep this thread updated as we go along, but the next month of training isn't going to be nearly as fun or exciting. Just basic CAD, machining, welding, construction, electrical etc training so that we can support our guys when we're over there. I don't expect that training to be very difficult because I have experience in all of those areas.
After that there will be more fun involved, which includes a full 3 weeks of armorer's training at Crane Small Arms.
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