New female CCW shooter

[Delmar]

Strambo speaks the truth when it comes to pistol training. As an Army medic, we didn't get much in the way of training when it came to pistols back in my day. Most of the medics were C.O.'s and the drill sergeant made his feelings known at the beginning "make sure you don't bruise your sensitive hands on this mean old piece of steel." I wouldn't have called it more than familiarization.

Fast forward to 2004 when my oldest son signed up, also as a medic. He was running around the NTC with his M9 in his protective mask holder because they didn't have enough holsters, and no training at all. That concerned me as he was on his way to Iraq, so I bought a Beretta and loaded a couple of thousand rounds to mil specs, and took him to the range for a couple of days so he could get used to the thing. I bought him a G.I style holster and made sure that he had good magazines as some of the issue stuff was iffy.

 

[strambo]

Not one of my best moments perhaps but a battalion in our brigade went through training first before our Iraq deployment and shot up almost all the 9mm ammo. I heard they qualified with each hand etc. messing around. I found myself in Kuwait with my medics and a few others about to go to a war zone for their first time with a gun they hadn't shot yet and I had almost no ammo to give them. (They qualified on an M4 so technically it was ok)

I may have thrown a bit of a tantrum in the brigade CP. I did get enough sympathy rounds from the fit to give them 2-3 mags full to cross the wire with and had about 50 extra rounds ea. for training once we got to our base in Iraq. I gave them a good training session (dry fire) during the mobilization so they were better prepared than anyone else including the yahoos who wasted the ammo.

I guess that was worth the meltdown, probably shouldn't have kicked around on the floor like a toddler though...kicked up a bunch of dust!