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Originally Posted by AZ Desertrat
Now, remember, these are Navy personnel, on liberty, supposedly trained in firearms safety.
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Just because they are in the Navy don't assume they are trained in firearm safety. When I was in boot camp we spent a day at the range firing 22 handguns.
Then on board the submarine we had what they called familiarization firing. Usually we did it at the range, at targets 15 feet away. One time that stands in my mind was when we actually did it from the missile deck of the USS George Washington SS(B)N 598. Nobody missed what they were aiming at as it was the pacific ocean. We had to get the fam fire done before we did missile testing at Coco Beach Florida so we did it before we went thru the panama canal.
So as you can see, the majority of navy personnel don't necessarily get a lot of familiarization with firearms.
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