Posted on Jan 7, 2016
CPT Russell Pitre
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I just saw this video and felt like I was watching a multi-car accident on the interstate. It just got worse as it went on. What made it so bad as this was a SGT. The Safety was professional as he could be. Hats off to him. When I heard her say "I'm not Active Duty" I would have kicked her off the range. I am glad the Safety told her that she was a soldier and that he was a reservist too. If I was her CO I would have do everything I could to reduce her. But I think if you have a NCO like this in your unit the unit itself has a lot of issues in the first place. What kills me also is that she has a combat patch.

What would you have if you were the Safety?

Just so you know that you know it is believed that they Safety was a SSG just the same as was the soldier trying to load the mag.

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SSG Lon Watson
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I saw this plenty in my 21 years of service. "NCOs" with half inch long red nails and perfectly coifed hair that couldn't shoot, wear a Kevlar properly, or operate worth a damn in the field. But they demanded respect as NCOs. NCOs lead from the front. NCOs teach, coach and mentor. NCOs set the axample! And this ain't it!!!
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SPC David Willis
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We had a Major roll with us on a mission to grab pictures or something, I cant remember exactly. But she told my TC that she was afraid to load her weapon. He was about to tell her she had to, but I stopped him and was like "hey man I sit right in front of her maybe just have her slide a mag in and make it a day so I'm not getting popped in the back or anything". Thankfully he had her do just that.
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SGT Philip Keys
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Well this doesn't look very good. I would have her loading mags until she became an expert. Cameras recording military training? Hell no, yet another issue with this generation that would record everything before actually stepping up and doing. Easy fix not everyone reserves or active duty is a war machine.
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PFC Jonathan Pryor
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I was an 88M and you can bet your sweet ass, I knew how to properly load my weapon ,then again I'm an old country boy and have three AR,s as well .
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SGT David Petree
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It maybe possible that the Sgt. had NEVER been on Ammo detail ever. That is the place to learn how to load a magazine . Or is it that the Sgt. did not know how to place the mag. in the M16 !! The question really should be about how the range was operated ! Were there any safety cheeks , function cheeks ??
In 1972 I had a SP5 ask me how to work a M16 . He had only used a M14 , & had no clue how to work the M16. So as a SP4 I gave him the best class I could before we went to the range. So I just wonder what , or when was the last time this Sgt. had anything to do with a weapon !!
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CPL Ralph Moschler
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Off my firing line , training training training
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Jerry Rivas
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teach her to load a magazine.......about 200 of them.....simple fix really.
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Jerry Rivas
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Teach her to load a magazine.........200 of them.....simple really.
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SFC David M. Phillips
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I spent 22 years most of that as an NCO, 2 years ad a drill EVERY NCO should know how to load a magazine reservist, National Guard, or active!
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Sgt Wayne Wood
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Not in the Marines...
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MSG Johnathan Mathes
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First off a lot of leaders failed here.. second she failed herself third no such thing as a reservist anymore that can be deployed at anytime.. better start looking deeper to see what else she doesn't know.. like reading a map..
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MSG Johnathan Mathes
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I meant to say " no such thing as a reservists that don't deploy anymore" guess I got too excited to proof read my own writing lol
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CW2 Ernest Krutzsch
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Still doing firing lines, eh? When I was at Fort Riley, I was running a pistol range. General House visited, he saw the first group go through and stopped everything. He asked, what is up with this ready on the left, ready on the right crap(I cleaned it up, considerably), I told him it was Forscom regulation. He said that it was all BS, he asked if that is the way we would do it in combat, I said no, so he said do it the way you would then. I turned the lanes over to the squad leaders and they told their troops where the targets were and when to shoot. I thought it was great, wish more would see it that way
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SGT Monitor
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I've seen a lot of sketchy stuff on the range being with Nat Guard, but never someone not knowing how to load a mag. That's BCT stuff..... Can they recycle her back to BCT to re-learn how to load a mag and go back through EVERYTHING about being a soldier?
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SFC Troop Fires Trainer
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All you should do is teach the standard, enforce the standard and move on. Its like finding a crack in your house... you don't point it out and let it get worse, you fix it and hope it holds because after all we are one team... one fight.
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Cpl Thomas Kifer
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We even took our magazine apart and oil brush the inner workings of our magazine. Unbelievable.
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Cpl Thomas Kifer
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I'm a little confused. Weather you are active duty or reservist, don't reservist go thru bootcamp first as active duty Marines and all other branches of the service do. I swear I new my M-16 A2 assault rifle better then anything. It is an extension of my vary soul. In my platoon in bootcamp, we didn't only disassembled our rifle blind foldered but behind our backs. There is nothing and I'm serious, there is nothing a marine know better then his rifle. Am I making myself clear here. And that soldier was a Sgt. That soldier, and I'm being serious, that soldier needs to repeat basic training. If the soldier doesn't have basic knowledge of their weapon. Then how is that person even a soldier. I see only two choices here, repeat basic or immediate discharge. And maybe discipline actions against those who promoted this soldier in the first place. Unforgivable.
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SSG Diane R.
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~Facepalm!
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PFC Bradley Campbell
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take the stripes and give choice. out or take basic training again
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SPC Joshua Fahlin
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Link no work
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SGT Squad Leader
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Not everyone is accustomed to firearms. However being in the military they ought to know their weapon. Perhaps it is because the only time she's ever fired a weapon was on the range and her mags were pre loaded. I don't know about you but I never see females on range duty.
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