Anyway, I definitely think we should have familiarisation with
all SAF infantry weapons, including live firing, for all combat
troops. All we ever get are these training shed courses where they
give you dummy rounds and you learn to load and unload, load and
relaod...
Anyone who think this is enough obviously haven't tried shooting a
weapon you're not familiar with.
My first M203 round from a borrowed weapon landed about 30m short
of target. This show how inadequate all the training shed lessons
were. Of course we were shooting at the extreme range of 250 to
300m.
There will always be people who will say this is not necessary etc
and they will bring out the "irrefutable" question of money as if
we are talking about their money.
They prefer to spend every ICT & BCT redoing the same old same
old FIBUA, FOFO, bayonet assault course, trench digging etc... as
this monotonous repetition somehow saves money instead of teaching
troops something new and very important.
Not to mention refreshing.
