[tahunua001]

navy bootcamp is kindof wonky in their interpretation of fundamentals. they do M9 and m500 shotgun where you shoot from the hip... I actually had to pay to go over to camp allen and qualify with the M4 after I got to my permanent command. handgun skills are good enough in my book for the majority of us that are never issued a firearm, but for those of us that go to security and have a rating/MOS that requires issueance of shotgun and rifle the basic shotgun qual from bootcamp is worthless and they still have to go through M16 training later on. one would think it would be a lot easier to teach how to actually fire a shotgun and spend an extra 2 days training in the basics of the M16 rather than wasting manhours on training after a sailor has left a training command.