Don't you just hate it when someone drags out their pictures or movies of their kids, or Lord Forbid the actual article! while they tell you what a charmer their liddle crumbgrabber is???
Me too........
But this one had to do with SHOOTING so I thought I'd share.
(Plus I'm as guilty as the next parent.)
My #Three-son is camping with his fellow-cruits down in Camp Pendleton as part of his Basic and he's finally got to the point where they get to learn about WHY the M-16 does what it does....... he just started Ballistics. He'd scored well in the initial shooting qual's ((((and he's a chip off the Old Blockhead, attitudewise))))) so's his whole platoon perty much hates him and the DI's just don't really know WHAT to think of him. He's gotten I.T. only two times...... both times for being "too cheerful" Turns out whistling is not fitting for a Marine, even if he is off by hissownself.....
ANYways....Three-boy is having the time of his life. He likes to blow things up so he's doing a 5yr stint with Marine Corp Force Recon as a stepping stone to get an Engineering degree as a structural blaster from some college in AZ, "the only one worth going to." (To those who know what Force Recon is, you're welcome ) in just a few short weeks he's already managed to alienate 90% of the folks around him, except for when they're in trouble...... He writes a lot of letters home and Mom keeps tabs on his progression on the internet.
So they're entering into Ballistics. And the DI lets them know in no uncertain terms that they know exactly SH*T!!! And he's going to beat some smart into their stupid skulls if it KILLS HIM!!! And just to PROVE that they know SH*T, "would anyone like to play Question-and-Answer!!!!"
No SIR!!!
"Do any of you know SH*T???"
NO SIR!!!
"R'C'uit MATSON!!! Do you know SH*T ABOUT BALLISTICS!!!!!"
ONLY A LITTLE SIR!!!!!
"!!!!!"
"?????"
"oohhh, so you know a LITTLE eh???"
YES SIR!!!
"R'C'uit MATSON!!! You seem bound and determined to know a little about EVERYTHING don't you??"
YES SIR!!! IT'S MY JOB SIR!!!
"Sooooooo, r'cruit matson, please define the term yaw..........."
SIR!!!! THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF YAW SIR, WHICH WOULD YOU LIKE FIRST SIR?
"you what????"
SIR??
"Oh PLEASE R'c'uit matson, how about the yaw associated with the bullets flight........"
So he did.
He was laughing so hard writing the letter to me that his pen was shaking...... he's got a nearly eidetic memory you see..... "When I started quoting from memory straight out of McCoy, the look on his face!!! It was like watching a Shakespeare play in 2 seconds!"
He didn't get I.T. and he had time to write from his rack so he pulled it off somehow
So, now that I got that off my chest, I'd better go sew my buttons back on
LOL
al
Me too........
But this one had to do with SHOOTING so I thought I'd share.
(Plus I'm as guilty as the next parent.)
My #Three-son is camping with his fellow-cruits down in Camp Pendleton as part of his Basic and he's finally got to the point where they get to learn about WHY the M-16 does what it does....... he just started Ballistics. He'd scored well in the initial shooting qual's ((((and he's a chip off the Old Blockhead, attitudewise))))) so's his whole platoon perty much hates him and the DI's just don't really know WHAT to think of him. He's gotten I.T. only two times...... both times for being "too cheerful"
Turns out whistling is not fitting for a Marine, even if he is off by hissownself.....ANYways....Three-boy is having the time of his life. He likes to blow things up so he's doing a 5yr stint with Marine Corp Force Recon as a stepping stone to get an Engineering degree as a structural blaster from some college in AZ, "the only one worth going to." (To those who know what Force Recon is, you're welcome
) in just a few short weeks he's already managed to alienate 90% of the folks around him, except for when they're in trouble...... He writes a lot of letters home and Mom keeps tabs on his progression on the internet.So they're entering into Ballistics. And the DI lets them know in no uncertain terms that they know exactly SH*T!!! And he's going to beat some smart into their stupid skulls if it KILLS HIM!!!
And just to PROVE that they know SH*T, "would anyone like to play Question-and-Answer!!!!"No SIR!!!
"Do any of you know SH*T???"
NO SIR!!!
"R'C'uit MATSON!!! Do you know SH*T ABOUT BALLISTICS!!!!!"
ONLY A LITTLE SIR!!!!!
"!!!!!"
"?????"
"oohhh, so you know a LITTLE eh???"
YES SIR!!!
"R'C'uit MATSON!!! You seem bound and determined to know a little about EVERYTHING don't you??"
YES SIR!!! IT'S MY JOB SIR!!!
"Sooooooo, r'cruit matson, please define the term yaw..........."
SIR!!!! THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF YAW SIR, WHICH WOULD YOU LIKE FIRST SIR?
"you what????"
SIR??
"Oh PLEASE R'c'uit matson, how about the yaw associated with the bullets flight........"
So he did.
He was laughing so hard writing the letter to me that his pen was shaking...... he's got a nearly eidetic memory you see..... "When I started quoting from memory straight out of McCoy, the look on his face!!! It was like watching a Shakespeare play in 2 seconds!"
He didn't get I.T. and he had time to write from his rack so he pulled it off somehow
So, now that I got that off my chest, I'd better go sew my buttons back on
LOL
al
