Out of retirement.
Scho is called out.
I once had the great opportunity to attend the LAPD H.I.T.S. course. There I met some of the greatest people in the world. LAPD officers, metro division. They even came down to Camp Pendleton later to throw a party titled an "unfamiliar weapons seminar" It's all about how it goes down in the accounting books...
Anyway, I took the H.I.T.S. knowledge back to the Marines and taught it to as many west coast Marine Corps Law Enforcement as could attend in the time I remained in the Corps. Handgun Combat 101, learned in the finest school in the world, LAPD officer academy, through Scho, the Marine Corps proxy.
This was a blast. I met EVERYONE in the west coast law enforcement community. They would TAD down to CampPen for the week of training and we would rub elbows, trade stories, and generally network. The most memorable experience was a pair of Santa Ana Police officers who were also Navy reservists. They got the Navy to fund their trip down to my course. These guys were the shit. They brought down their 'entry weapons' for us to try out. We carried and used the H & K MP-5, but they had a version of the CAR-15, or what the US armed forces now call the M-4, a compact M-16, chambered for the 9mm pistol round. An entry weapon much more familiar in the fact that all in Uncle Sam's Gun club are one with the M-16.
So this past week I've been in a running Email battle of barbs and ultimately a pistol range challenge by Linus. He actually threw out a 'Broadside of a barn' reference to my pistol marksmanship. Oh, yeah. It's personal. It ran into a monetary wager, and it looks like it is on.
This year has been shitty. This month has been shitty. This weekend has been shitty. This little field trip is just the kind of thing that I live for, cancelling out the entire year. Picture Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh on the range together in the first film. Yeah, it's going to be like that.
It's the only thing I was ever really good at.
I once had the great opportunity to attend the LAPD H.I.T.S. course. There I met some of the greatest people in the world. LAPD officers, metro division. They even came down to Camp Pendleton later to throw a party titled an "unfamiliar weapons seminar" It's all about how it goes down in the accounting books...
Anyway, I took the H.I.T.S. knowledge back to the Marines and taught it to as many west coast Marine Corps Law Enforcement as could attend in the time I remained in the Corps. Handgun Combat 101, learned in the finest school in the world, LAPD officer academy, through Scho, the Marine Corps proxy.
This was a blast. I met EVERYONE in the west coast law enforcement community. They would TAD down to CampPen for the week of training and we would rub elbows, trade stories, and generally network. The most memorable experience was a pair of Santa Ana Police officers who were also Navy reservists. They got the Navy to fund their trip down to my course. These guys were the shit. They brought down their 'entry weapons' for us to try out. We carried and used the H & K MP-5, but they had a version of the CAR-15, or what the US armed forces now call the M-4, a compact M-16, chambered for the 9mm pistol round. An entry weapon much more familiar in the fact that all in Uncle Sam's Gun club are one with the M-16.
So this past week I've been in a running Email battle of barbs and ultimately a pistol range challenge by Linus. He actually threw out a 'Broadside of a barn' reference to my pistol marksmanship. Oh, yeah. It's personal. It ran into a monetary wager, and it looks like it is on.
This year has been shitty. This month has been shitty. This weekend has been shitty. This little field trip is just the kind of thing that I live for, cancelling out the entire year. Picture Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh on the range together in the first film. Yeah, it's going to be like that.
It's the only thing I was ever really good at.
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I'm actually going to come up short. I offered to buy the ammo, range time, and a rental of his choice, which is about 120 bucks. But it's all about the reputation...
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