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1911SFOREVER Part time instructor, full time student Team Member Joined: Jul 2003  VA, USA Posts: 764 Feedback: 100% (2) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 9:39:54 PM Fuckin' A tag for that stud!
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fiver Irregular Combatant Team Member Joined: May 2007  OH, USA Posts: 1160 Feedback: 100% (2) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 9:41:10 PM A fantastic read. I know that he wanted to keep it short, but he is a good writer and given the chance I would encourage him to tell the "long" story. Many would take the time to read no matter how long it got. Thank you for posting that here.
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walrus Member Joined: Sep 2004  USA Posts: 3359 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 9:41:38 PM Originally Posted By themagikbullet: wow I thank that soldier for his sacrifice and will take his advice to heart. Marine, not soldier.
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flyfishnepa Member Joined: Oct 2008  PA, USA Posts: 7433 Feedback: 100% (7) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 9:42:06 PM great post. is there any way infantry guys can have the military pay for them to take a course?
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Bama-Shooter You do your thing. I'll do mine. Moderator Joined: Apr 2004  HND Posts: 58041 Feedback: 100% (52) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 9:42:34 PM Wow. I guess some of us just assume certain things are taught in military.
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carshooter Member Team Member Joined: Feb 2001  OH, USA Posts: 325 Feedback: 100% (13) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 9:47:37 PM That is an excellent post I appreciated reading on the other forum. I think you did a good thing cross posting it.
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CAsoldier Member Joined: Jul 2006  AZ, USA Posts: 1511 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 9:49:03 PM whoa! i always though that perhaps i spent too much time worrying about how to be faster, i dont have that now. that man is a hero.
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S-1 Member Team Member Joined: Aug 2002  USA Posts: 1937 Feedback: 100% (9) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 9:53:15 PM Thanks for posting that, JW. BTW... Why the fuck does the USMC still teach to blade towards a target?
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gonzo_beyondo Czar Czar Team Member Joined: Dec 2005  USA Posts: 16254 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 10:01:21 PM Originally Posted By GhostRing: Truly heartbreaking and inspiring. Yes.
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Posted: 10/29/2009 10:12:34 PM Originally Posted By S-1: Thanks for posting that, JW. BTW... Why the fuck does the USMC still teach to blade towards a target? In the days before SAPI plates you bladed towards the enemy to present a smaller target. We got our plates issued to us in Kuwait a few weeks before moving North (this is Feb 2004). No time to consider how much of a game changer plates are. As far as I know the training doctrine has changed and Marines are taught to square off to their targets. However, if you rewind the clock back to at least 1999 when I was taught in urban fighting it was imparitive to shoot and move, when you move your body will be square to your target to aid in creating a stable shooting platform. Thankfully I had a squad leader that had been in FAST Company before going into the Reserves. He drilled us a lot with mag changes and stowing empty mags in your cargo pocket.

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JaredGrey Member Joined: Oct 2008  WI, USA Posts: 742 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 10:18:29 PM I've been doing standard, tactical, and one-handed reload drills with my pistols for months now. This is a good kick-in-the-pants to start doing drills with the rifle too.
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fullautom16 Member Joined: Aug 2007  TN, USA Posts: 479 Feedback: 100% (52) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 10:19:01 PM God bless him, God bless every U.S.Warrior and God bless America
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Friiguy Banned Team Member Joined: May 2006  NM, USA Posts: 3745 Feedback: 100% (13) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 10:30:09 PM Originally Posted By Bama-Shooter: Wow. I guess some of us just assume certain things are taught in military. +1 Great read.
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oldmanT Member Team Member Joined: Jan 2009  CO, USA Posts: 221 Feedback: 100% (1) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 10:37:07 PM Inspiring. Every post like this helps on my way to OCS. And lots of respect for Magpul for making their class work for that man. Great post thanks.
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Castillo 21B Team Member Joined: May 2006  NY, USA Posts: 2834 Feedback: 100% (2) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 10:37:50 PM tag for later reading
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doorgunner84 I felt like destroying something beautiful. Team Member Joined: May 2001  AK, USA Posts: 7568 Feedback: 100% (1) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 10:38:11 PM BTT!!!!
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nobodyg17 Member Team Member Joined: Mar 2008  WI, USA Posts: 1340 Feedback: 100% (48) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 10:39:10 PM Thank you for sharing. Great story from a heck of a great man. I wish him well in everything he does, but he looks like he can do anything he likes. If you can, tell him thank you for sharing his story with us. My vote for best thread on here in a long time.
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Posted: 10/29/2009 10:49:11 PM [Last Edit: 10/29/2009 10:52:42 PM by squirrell18] The military training in the old days was even worse. My friend was in the Marines in the late 70's and they never learned anything valuable. The only firing on the move they ever did was from the hip(if you can believe that) and they never practiced reloading etc. They also wanted him to use as little lube as possible(they were scared of lubing the bolt like Pat Rogers always talks about). He drove a amphibious tractor that had a .50 machine gun on it and he said they fired it 2 times in the entire time he was in. They only fired a few times per year and only was given 1 single 30 round mag to fire full auto(from the hip) per 6th months.

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Posted: 10/29/2009 10:51:22 PM Originally Posted By John_Wayne777: I'm quoting this post from a wounded Marine on another forum so that people here can see it and learn from it. He goes by the screen-name "RetreatHell" on another forum. I've thought long and hard about reproducing that post here, but I think it's too valuable a lesson learned at too high a price not to. Good move IMO. I seriously doubt the Marine would disapprove.

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Agrippa Dismember Team Member Joined: Jan 2003  ME, USA Posts: 921 Feedback: 0% (0) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 10:55:53 PM This has to be one of the most important posts I have seen in GD in a long fucking time. Thanks for posting that J_W.
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zeke013 Village Idiot Team Member Joined: May 2006  OR, USA Posts: 3096 Feedback: 100% (1) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 10:57:22 PM Thanks for sharing. Great post.
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Intune69 Member Team Member Joined: Oct 2008  TN, USA Posts: 491 Feedback: 100% (2) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 10:57:25 PM Excellent read & great advice. Woke me up as I am one who always practiced pistol mag changes, never rifle. I just tried to do my AK mag change quick. Terrible. Dangerously terrible. I will practice. Thank you for the post & God Bless that young Marine.
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Middlelength Member Team Member Joined: Sep 2008  MI, USA Posts: 275 Feedback: 100% (31) Link To This Post	Posted: 10/29/2009 10:57:48 PM Outstanding post. I think today we take for granted many of the TTPs that came about in response to OIF/OEF. This young man is obviously still a warrior.
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