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Old 09-01-2009, 10:03 PM
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Excuse me, I AM a soldier, and I have definately handled magazines. What's unlikely to anyone who's been in the military is the army not doing something just because it doesn't make sense to any reasonable human being. 90% of weapons drills are mostly to try and eliminate the idiot factor.
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Old 09-02-2009, 02:50 AM
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Well my Marine buddies all told me they do the tapping their magazines in and out of training as well. They say you're supposed to visually check the mags before taking them out anyway, but doing the tap is supposed to come natural
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Old 09-02-2009, 03:04 AM
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Excuse me, I AM a soldier, and I have definately handled magazines. What's unlikely to anyone who's been in the military is the army not doing something just because it doesn't make sense to any reasonable human being. 90% of weapons drills are mostly to try and eliminate the idiot factor.
Then you should have said "to try to idiot proof the practice, the CANADIAN military trains you to check to see if you're loading an empty magazine!" LOL!
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Old 09-05-2009, 03:52 AM
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Then you should have said "to try to idiot proof the practice, the CANADIAN military trains you to check to see if you're loading an empty magazine!" LOL!
Canadians do a lot of things the world doesn't understand.
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