Wampum

I needed a book I could only find at a tech bookstore and MB wanted to try to get into the Abramoff sentencing, so we drove past the Wall and I remembered a classmate at Berkeley. We both shot pistol for the squad, he could hit the target occasionally, and was wicked gungho. I did significantly better, and was much less gungho. I was satisfied that BuPers sent me on cruise that did convoy and ASW drills. He was impatient to get to 'Nam and resigned to go as an EM. His name is over there somewhere, along with a lot of other kids I was in school with but didn't know or simply don't remember from 1968.

I can see shooting target, with a target weapon, and I can see shooting any number of standard arms for waterfowl and deer. I just don't see the point of even putting a hand on a 16 or pretending that a 5.56 round is useful for harvesting deer. Pretense isn't service, and the service provides ample opportunities to learn the proper use of infantry weapons, even for those who don't seek, or are not yet allowed, a combat arms assignment.