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.

https://www.facebook.com/Theseniorspecialist/videos/ [login to see] 43848/?fref=nf
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1SG Patrick Sims
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There is no excuse for that kind of thing--- Certainly not excusing incompetence by saying--I'm not active duty. You're a soldier, and this isn't the God-dam Salvation Army. The lives of the American People depend on us. Either get with the program, or take off that uniform and move along.
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SSG Jeff Hulet
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I can't view the Video, but the female soldier in the photo was a Specialist...Not a SGT. Did I miss something. But, yes anyways she should know how to load a magazine. But the weapon in the photo is a SAW and should only be Mag fed in an Emergency, because it will jam more than feed properly.
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SPC Casey Skroch
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What's the first thing you learn at the firing range it to load a magazine.
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SGT Steve Mack
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I've been out for 30 years, and I can still load a mag.
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CPT Michael Murphy
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This is why we'll not have nice things. Maybe, not ever.
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SPC Tino Valentine
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IF you were a safety...... isn’t safety everyone’s job?
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SGT Rosi Teresi
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TRAIN TRAIN TRAIN. When we got sent to Ft Hood in 03-04, there were several units, sent for pre-deployment training, that were sent right back home because they couldn't even spell SOLDIER, LET ALONE BE ONE. The unit that replaced us was so jacked up. We stayed an extra 2 months to give them a chance to get their shit together and then we just told them sink or swim, we're goin home. We reset the standard for med-evac and two months later, they were sent away and the post went with civilian contractors. The SGT in question here, and probably the whole unit, would spent the rest of the drill loading and unloading magazines. Then they would have to do it blindfolded. What else do they NOT know how to do??
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SGT Infantryman
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She is incompetent and should be demoted. What is equally disturbing is your horrible grammar and spelling. Clean it up.
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SPC Christopher Travis
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The picture shows a belt fed weapon, not one loaded by a magazine. An nco’s job is to correct the wrong and make right via the proper instruction. This shouldn’t include making posts for others to laugh at, including by other senior nco’s who should know better. Lead from the front and not the rear; correct the situation and Charlie Mike.
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SSG John Mitchell
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Couldn't bring up the Vid. but if it's the same one I think it is, Training Breakdown. I got to be the Training NCO as a SPC for a few years. I can tell you from experience, everything we learned in Basic is a perishable skill in a Support Unit. I THOUGHT that was why we instituted SGT Time Training every Wed., rant for another time, but that wasn't the case. The BLUF here is simple. Refresher Course on your Individual Weapons System SHOULD have been done before the first boot hit the range. It's tedious, time consuming & a general pain in the ass but when you have Soilder's Live's in your hands you do what's necessary. As for this POS that posted it. I can promise you my last good CO\1SG combo would have had him for lunch. Then he'd have been MINE cause I'm the a$$hole who would have had to do the paperwork.
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