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2007-05-03 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve White 2007-05-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Tragic. Personally, I still preferred to shout "Bang, you're dead" - sometimes, even a "Do I have to say it?" weird look will suffice.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-05-03 00:32|| 2007-05-03 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 One of my favorite sayings is, "There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over." Unfortunately, that's not the case with bullets, so folks have to make time to do it right.

Posted by Bobby 2007-05-03 05:57|| 2007-05-03 05:57|| Front Page Top

#3 I see the press is going to post a story about EVERY gunshot death as prominently as possible now. This seems to be their next big drive.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-05-03 07:28|| 2007-05-03 07:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Ok, this smells wrong. That he gets sick during an exercise and has to leave, ok. But, no one clears his weapon when he has to leave? It lays around the tent for a few days, even gets moved to another area and no one clears it? He doesn't check his weapon, not even to clean it, when it was out of his control for days before the next exercise? Bullshit.

Posted by Steve 2007-05-03 08:03|| 2007-05-03 08:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Steve,
I think you're right. Unaccounted for weapons cause major crisis on any base, expecially training areas. If the Marines have become this lax, which I doubt, then a crackdown is needed.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-05-03 10:44|| 2007-05-03 10:44|| Front Page Top

#6 These guys can clean a weapon in a matter of minutes, so every weapon should be cleaned immediately before every exercise.

Posted by wxjames 2007-05-03 17:49|| 2007-05-03 17:49|| Front Page Top

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