Browning Hi-Power - SA only service pistol?

[Milofficer]

I think the only thing seriously needing help on the handgun is the sights. They are simply far too small.


Or perhaps instead lay the blame on a**hole storesman Cpl Ratboy like we recently had - the ones who WON'T tag a weapon for repair when you hand it in at the end of the day and tell them it needs repair. The ones who take a .50 cal driving rod and springs which you have just handed to them telling them it is bent, bend it sort of back by hand, and then throw that bent driving rod back in with all the good bolts and driving rods to be handed out again.

This is at the Infantry School at Gagetown - you know, the Combat Training Center of Excellence?

+1 on the comment about the sights.

I've experienced similar things at the Infantry School, where storemen don't tag obviously N/S equipment, anything from C79 sights without rubber covers or windage screws, to C7 magazines with bent feed lips and a crack through the side, making it impossible to seat the magazine into the housing. We were told on course more than once to simply 'make do'. It's frustrating, but thankfully not all storemen are like that.

 

[DiemacoC7A1]

Infantry? Engineer? etc... An infantry MCpl may well not have DP3A SAIC yet, and an other arms Jack probably never will get that qualification.


What's funny about hating liberals? Isn't that a normal state of being?


I wouldn't be assuming that all things instructional are generally better in the regs if I were you... It seems to be more on a case by case basis, along with the "Do I give a shyte today?" factor. When you're on an urban ops instructor (or whatever the course) course and the instructors don't want to be there, the fact they're regs (or reservists or whatever the hell) really doesn't matter.

Properly speaking, if an NCO does not have the training to present the material they're teaching, somebody who does know the material should bring them up to speed. People should not have to fail before qualified instructors intervene. Doesn't matter whether you're teaching firearms, ETHAR, comms, whatever. Get them proper instruction from the start, instead of doing remedial instruction afterwards when you're trying to undo what was wrongly/improperly taught before. What a concept!

Well said. The MCpl in question was Infantry. I was going to correct him on the grip and sight picture, but I learned my lesson about correcting instructors on my BMQ 3 years ago...