Originally Posted by
LSP972
Some years back (not that many), I read that the Corps was actually reducing the number of handguns in their combat arms TO&Es. Company grade officers and staff NCOs would be issued M4s, while the grunts would continue to be issued M-16A4s.
A friend's daughter went through the Marine Corps MP school two years ago, and I was flabbergasted to learn that she received two- TWO- whole days training on the M9, during a six week course. I had worked with her with a borrowed 92F on her break between boot camp and the MP school. She told me that familiarization saved her from boloing.
Did I say training? Actually, it was one day of barely-supervised fam firing, and the next day were quals… which a full third of the class failed. Simply amazing… and scary.
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