Actually, most soldier's training with a handgun tends to range from insufficient to non-existent. If you fight with small armS, you fight with a rifle (or maybe a machine gun). If you're an artilleryman or a vehicle crewman, you fight with that. Handgun training, if it happens at all, tends to be an afterthought. In both time and budget. In fact more support troops than infantryman carry pistols - an infantryman has enough shit to carry as it is, and someone who spends most of their time inside the wire does not need to spend it carrying a rifle.
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