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Beebs52 wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:(I'll bet you knew the Final J! question last night.)

No. I was in Everett, Washington.

It's about time they got TV there.

Bob Juch wrote:

Beebs52 wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:(I'll bet you knew the Final J! question last night.)

No. I was in Everett, Washington.

It's about time they got TV there.

Okay, that's funny right there.

Another sign of the "Age of the Wimp."

https://www.military.com/daily-news/201 ... ining.html

Among a slew of basic training changes, the army is nixing the grenade throwing requirement.

>>>>"We are finding that there are a large number of trainees that come in that quite frankly just physically don't have the capacity to throw a hand grenade 20 to 25 to 30 meters. In 10 weeks, we are on a 48-hour period; you are just not going to be able to teach someone how to throw if they haven't thrown growing up."<<<<

Spock wrote:Another sign of the "Age of the Wimp."

https://www.military.com/daily-news/201 ... ining.html

Among a slew of basic training changes, the army is nixing the grenade throwing requirement.

>>>>"We are finding that there are a large number of trainees that come in that quite frankly just physically don't have the capacity to throw a hand grenade 20 to 25 to 30 meters. In 10 weeks, we are on a 48-hour period; you are just not going to be able to teach someone how to throw if they haven't thrown growing up."<<<<

That's one of the best times in Basic. That and firing the LAW, which I missed because my mom decided to send me cupcakes for my 18th birthday, so I got pulled out of training because the package required a signature.

SMH

I will motivate you, Private Cupcake, if it short-dicks every cannibal on the Congo!

Leave the skateboarders alone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzAikAv17ds