How To Make An Infantryman Happy..

[clayton86]

Well there are a lot of ways but I was smiling pretty good today getting lots of trigger time in. We over Drew wayyyyyy to much ammo for our training lane like 40,000 to many rounds of 5.56 ammo. We can't turn it in really so we have to shoot it.

Platoon Sgt came buy asking if anyone wanted to shoot some extra rounds at targets out to 800 meters. Few of us got up me being one of them grabbed my rifle and my gear and headed for the ammo point. I was handed 8 bandoliers that's 32 mags or 960 rounds how ever you want to look at it. We got to go shoot any way we wanted no body armor just as long as we had eye and ear pro we could go shoot.

I was drilling my 800m target every time in the prone and probably 75% the time in the kneeling position. Standing I just controlled paired every target out to 600m then single tapped them back in to the 25m target.

I then called two of my new guys up to the line gave them my M4 and let them shoot out to 800 with the ACOG. One was having trouble I got his trigger squeeze down better and he started drilling the 700 target consistently the other hit the 800 once and then just worked his way back and forth on all the targets. Also had them shooting their weapons with the CCO on it out to 500-600 pretty good.

Things like this make me want to stay in the infantry I shot probably 1500 rounds myself because I was just getting tossed ammo upon ammo told not to bring any back shoot it all. Now the fact I haven't showered or sat on porcelain in two weeks makes me wanna switch to a different MOS.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

The snipers never get to sit on porcelain. So it could be worse.

Sounds like a dang fun time.

[Long Mike]

Our tax dollars at work.

[plumworm]

X2, Long MIke

[fishinfiend]

jealous

[clayton86]

Yes tax dollars at work and sadly this is just a small part of how much is wasted. I've been logging lots of flight time the last two weeks for nothing more then joy rides disguised as "practicing how to load and unload a helicopter" imagine all that fuel.

Or we can look at it as next conflict we get into as I'm sure another will be soon. Our pilots will be good and our infantryman( like myself) will have no problem taking long shots with our M4 service rifles.

[Bladesmith,]

I would not begrudge a rifleman the ammo to perfect his craft (I have had to depend on them). Yes, there is an awful lot of waste in the military services but ammo for practice is not wasted.

[clayton86]

Got a whole crate to burn threw today that's 1680 rounds. I thought I was going to melt my barrel.

Hit the 800 standing after like 2 mags trying to find where I was hitting at that range lol. Did some good mag change drills put it on burst and drilled the 25-300 on burst that was a lot of fun. Shot out to 700m off hand. All the target practice is over now got a night run on our little training lane and then that's it for trigger time.

[BassCats]

consider yourself lucky, when I was deploying on my second tour in 05 they gave us exactly 90 rounds to zero, qualify, and shoot for the entire year. Said there was an ammo shortage until we got to Iraq. It was worse in Kuwait when we got there they gave us 30 rounds to zero and shoot with and make sure weapons were good to go. Now once we crossed the border, well then I had all the ammo in the world. lol

[clayton86]

consider yourself lucky, when I was deploying on my second tour in 05 they gave us exactly 90 rounds to zero, qualify, and shoot for the entire year. Said there was an ammo shortage until we got to Iraq. It was worse in Kuwait when we got there they gave us 30 rounds to zero and shoot with and make sure weapons were good to go. Now once we crossed the border, well then I had all the ammo in the world. lol

Sounds about right when I deployed in 12 we got 30 to zero with then got in country and didn't even get to confirm zero till august....I was in country starting in April and left in December.