Whoa! Get this! I'm paid to do this?

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#1

Okay, so reason number 647 why I’m glad I joined the Air Force…I get to go do this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Armed_Forces_Badge_of_Marksmanship

I’ll be spending the ENTIRE day tomorrow shooting WITH FREE AMMO! rubs hands maniacally and does Calvin grin

I’m so stoked! I had to leave all my guns back home in Texas when we moved here, and now the Germans are giving me 9 hours of range time, 3 weapon types and all the rounds I can shoot? twists own arm OKAY, OKAY! I’LL DO IT!

Bonus: German marksmanship award is legal for me to earn. Downside: Officer rank means I can’t wear it. (But I’ll have the lanyard and ribbon…and oh, they’ll know I was there. Time for a Texas boy to show his German friends how to shoot straight for real :wink:

HA!

I love my job…the minutiae sometimes gets tedious, and never-frakking-ending staff meetings are the bane of my existence, but then opportunities like this come along.

-Trey

#2

I have a friend in the Bundeswehr/Luftwaffe who went through this. He told me that the guns they qualify on contain 9 warning shots before you throw the pistol at your target. :slight_smile:

#3

I fly into Düsseldorf a lot on Lufthansa however my blackberry is insistent that I didn’t spell it correctly and autocorrects to Luftwaffe people keep thinking I do it on purpose. I totally wanted to be a pilot when I was growing up I even joined the Air Cadets… i must have gone wrong somewhere along the line. Im not jealous…much

#4

Yeah, we call that analysis paralysis where I come from :slight_smile:

#5

Ok…follow up. Home from the range. That was COOL! Shot Gold on pistol and rifle and missed Gold by one round on the MG3, so Silver. D’oh! Award is based on lowest ranked score, so I’ll get the Silver lanyard. Sweet!

Added bonus: didn’t have to clean any of the weapons.

Weather was cold, extremely foggy (made those 300 meter rifle shots tough!) and wet from last night. Cleared up and was another crisp, gorgeous German day.

Added added bonus: about half the group left after lunch, leaving us with the unenviable task of burning through all the remaining 7.62 rounds (about two thousand) through the MG3. Rough duty on a Thursday afternoon! For those who get the opportunity to shoot one, I highly recommend it. It is so choice.

-Trey

#6

Awesome! Congrats!

#7

When you say MG3 I guess you mean MG3!

#8

That’s the one! Mine was fired prone, with just the bipod and tucked up tight into the shoulder, so no big tripod mount, but the results were just as fun!

I want one! I must have one! Home protection, you know. :wink:

-Trey