rifle practice today . . .

mollykins | 20:04 Sat 09th Oct 2010 | ChatterBank

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. . . . was a disaster (at least it was only ceremonial stuff we were doing and not actually firing them), for several reasons;

1) the instructor kept syaing the orders for the old rifles, which you use in a completely different way.

2) the other instructors who were learning how to use these guns kept making more mistakes in the routines than the cadets! especially a lieutenant commander (the highest scc rank!) and then there was a petty officer, who I was stood next to who dropped his rifle, which went flying past me and clipped my rifle, half way through a 'present arms' movement so i nearly dropped mine!

3) my hands got really sweaty (anti-perseprant doens't work on hands!) and the rifle kept slipping out of my hands, especially when we did 'present arms'!!!!!!!!!!!

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We weren't learning how to shoot them, but how to march with them and do ceremonial movements.

Plus we had to do this thing where you put the weapon on the floor (in a special, precise way of course) which involved practically doing lunges to get down on your knee correctly, and now my thigh is killing me.

And my neck is really sore, cos I kept catching it (and the bit with the tube in most of the time), and it was on a bit of the rifle that shouldn't even be there, but non of the armoury officers can work out a way of taking it off!

sandyRoe

Ketchup on chips. It's sacrilege to smother bacon in it

mollykins

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If i have to have a bacon sarnie I put ketchup one one bit of bread and brown sauce on the other.

sandyRoe

Genius, pure genius!!! That would make the judgement of Solomon look like something out of Judge Judy.

AlBags

I must admit .. in the RAF .. we first started with wooden ones painted black!

mollykins

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Our old ones were mainly wooden, from was of the world wars that had been modified so that they could never be shot again.

anneasquith

the world would be a better place molly if all guns were wooden

mrs.chappie

Wotcher molls!

How is that nasty ear infection you were suffering from? Poor gal ... I hope it's cleared up now. Nasty things.

(Apologies if you've already posted about it and I've missed it).

mollykins

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Thanks for caring mrsC, I'm not sure if i have or not, but it has just about cleared up, I finished taking the drops on thursday and since then i've only had a couple of little twinges of earache . . .