2 weeks ago I went through a course called Eagle Rifle Marksmanship. The course clearly had to have the word 'eagle' in the title because, let's face it, this is 101st land and everything has to do with those screaming eagles in one way or another.
Anyhow, this was a marksmanship course designed to help you coach a shooter to shoot better. I am already a pretty awesome shooter. Duh. But I'm always going to have Soldiers who suck at shooting and, as an NCO, I'm always going to have to be on the range with these folks until they qualify. So learning tricks to get the shooter to shoot better was great.
Along the way, I got to put a whole lot of bullets down range. I had a ton of fun. I got to shoot at metal targets for the first time-- the tink tink tink noise it makes is super cool. I learned how to shoot with my non-dominant eye. Turns out I'm good as lefty too. I learned how to lay on my side and shoot and how to brace myself against walls and windows for more effective shooting.
I even brought back a battle scar.
I was lifting myself up off the ground and pushed a hot spent brass casing into my wrist. It's been a while since I had a brass burn. Better on the wrist than on the neck like usual!
I'm looking forward to the next 86th CSH range so I can teach my Soldiers what I learned and hopefully I'll be able to coach of few of the into shooting expert-- like me. :)
I hope you never get a soldier like me. I just plain sucked. No matter who gave me advice (and I welcomed anyone's) I could never manage to zero and would spend all day out there. It became very frustrating but somehow I always got a 23! Hooah for meeting minimum requirements!
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