Subdeacon Joe Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrxjYfl05ek And we teach ours how to put on a rubber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 There's a qood number of our young Americans who can do this kind of thing..... But overall you are probably right....sadly. GG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted October 5, 2014 Author Share Posted October 5, 2014 There's a qood number of our young Americans who can do this kind of thing..... But overall you are probably right....sadly. GG Yeah, there are. But you can bet they didn't learn it in school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poet Jones 99980 Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 Reminds me of Basic Training. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 Russian ROTC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 Yeah, there are. But you can bet they didn't learn it in school. There are classes here for that too... But yeah.... Some in school, some elsewhere...but they exist. GG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 High school ROTC 1957 I could do that with an M-1 rifle, M-1 carbine, 1911A1, and a Browning 1919 lmg. I was 15 years old. I can still do the Queen Anne Salute and a number of other fancy drill moves with the Garand. Lot of muscle memory involved fro Drill Team days in high school and college. ROTC now... at least in the part of California that I'm familiar with... doesn't even allow real weapons, only solid wood drill rifle with a turn bolt gate latch for a rifle bolt. At my son-in-law's retirement as a CW-5 after 30 years in the Corps (smalls arms instructor, DI, several tours of nasty places, etc.), the honor guard wasn't allowed to have firing pins in their Garands on a U. S. Navy base at Coronado. Everyone needs a hobby. I only wonder why so many people have chosen paranoia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 Forty, we could do the same thing in the 60's in the Bay Area. I recall participating in many JROTC rifle matches in San Francisco back then... Makes me ill to think of all those Remington 40X's... Winchester Model 52's... Anschutz's... that were yanked from schools and scrapped and melted down during the Clinton administration... I'm not so sure I'm enjoying our new "enlightened" world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tascosa, SASS# 24838 Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 Sad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eamon Chute Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 Hey Hardpan (and others), Even in San Francisco....yes SAN FRANCISCO....most high schools had honest to God shooting teams into the late 60's and early 70's. My Mother-in-law was on her shooting team and she went to an all-girls Catholic high school! And she was a national small-bore rifle champion. Times have changed. EC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 Not for the better is a lot of respects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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