Quoted: I was attending an open house at an AF base and I was talking to the Security Forces guy [E2] and I asked how much ammo they get to shoot and he said 1000's and 1000's out of the M60 that he had on display.
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Yep,
When I was in, you had to qualify every six months for each type weapon you were trained on. M9, M16/GAU-5, M203, M60, shotgun, Mark-19, etc.
Plus, you had additional special qualifications like night firing, gas mask firing, firing from moving vehicles, etc. For some guys (like me), that was range time once a month, every month.
And if you still couldn't get enough, just hang out with the Combat Arms folks, who had to shoot almost every week. They'd let you blast away with all the toys as long as you helped clean them.
It got to the point that some guys were complaining about spending so much of their off-duty time at the range.