Chances are, you’ve been there.
The person you want to take to bed is at your place. There’s chemistry. But how do you make the first move?
As a man with some experience in this venue, I can honestly state: When a woman takes charge for that first move, it’s fucking hawt. It’s awesome. We live in a society, here in the USA, where a man has to second guess his timing on making the first move. A woman taking initiative removes all doubt. And it is a glorious thing.
Any of you who think this tale is going to be a perfect romance with Alex and Mick, I will give a minute spoiler here: You’re dead wrong. Uwah ha ha. I’m a bastard.
Ran across this video. Any of you recent members of the Devil Dogs want to confirm that this ridiculous video is actually part of USMC training? I find it hard to believe. The video has great info for a civilian who’s never handled a rifle, but I figured the USMC would rely on live fire training, not a video like this.
[edit to add]: On further thought, I don’t even think this video is good for an uninitiated civilian shooter. I guess I just don’t see the point of the film, as it doesn’t really do much of anything for the new shooter. It’s like watching a training film on how to drive a speedboat. You won’t learn how to do it until you actually get your hands on the speedboat.
PS: Tomorrow’s comic, although not explicitly NSFW, is a bit R-rated and involves sex. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Remember that many USMC recruits ARE civilians who’ve never handled a rifle.
While I haven’t done any US Marine Corps training myself, so I may be wrong, I have been through extensive military training, and my guess is that this video isn’t really used all that much but is in circulation throughout the training units as a teaching accessory, sitting on the same shelf as range safety books and the like. Military organizations make all sorts of crap they never use.
Also, the video’s not bad, but I was surprised at some of the sitting positions depicted there, specifically the one where the soldier is sitting down with his legs splayed out in front of him. I would never let anyone get used to firing a rifle sitting like that.
When I went through Army BCT, we had a couple of days learning the nomenclature, disassembly, cleaning, and re-assembly of the weapon (M-14, in my case), and lectures and 16mm films on range safety and shooting accuracy. Then we had a couple of weeks sighting in and practicing, practicing, practicing, and finally qualifying. “Post privileges” – going to the exchange or the movie theater – depended on qualifying. This video is about the same in content as what we saw, updated to more modern uniforms and weapons.
Must be nice. My training in the Air Farce (1987) consisted of a couple hours of lecture, nothing about sight picture or trigger control, and 100 rounds on the range with a horrible piece of shit AR that jammed on every other shot.
At least we got some amusement when Airman Pyle violated every rule by, when his rifle jammed, turned around with his finger still on the trigger, yelling about “hey, there’s sumfin wrong wif ma gun” and was dogpiled by four TIs.
” …the one where the soldier is sitting down with his legs splayed out in front of him.”
That position’s a time-honored tradition in this country, young fella. It comes from Hollywood movies!
You… you mean they’re going to DO IT? But that’s COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE! My DELICATE, VIRGIN eyes may see NAUGHTY BITS! WOE unto ME!
I was a grunt, but the video looks about right, it’s the sort of crap they show boots before taking them to the range for the first time.
Not a Marine, but a soldier in an allied nations army.
Every military force relies on classroom training and dry practice before recruits are ever allowed on the range. There are more classrooms than ranges, ammo costs money and a young little shit who’s never handled a gun before is going to have to learn how to line up his sights (especially back in the days before FPS’s were “realistic”). I’d say this video looks legit as **** (especially considering the crappy music and rubbish narrator).
Classroom training before going out to the range, I would think. You don’t want people trying to shoot without some idea of what they need to do.
Nothing can replace actual practice.
Dunno for sure but the video looks legit to me. Welcome to the 21st Century where a video replaces or supplements hours of boring old classroom lectures. Key is to remember that a serious percentage of recruits have a Hollywood PhD in shooting so they’ve got to be deprogrammed before they can learn to do it right.
Then it’s range time.
well the first minute and the half was boring enough… started falling asleep into my cup of coffee. Stopped it there.
This comic: I’m waiting for the ‘drop’. Damn you and your dubstep posts the other week :p.
I just want to know where Heidi put the other cameras.
If Heidi put up other cameras, I think Alex will end up beating the crap out of her.
Me too. 🙂
It looks just like the training films used in the Army in the ’80s. I’ll run it past a buddy of mine who was a range captain at Parris.
And LOL; “video replacing real training in the 21st Century”. Apparently someone’s never seen the training films from the 1930s and 1940s, nor has ever been to boot. This IS “real training”. At least we don’t use comic books any more…….
Point.
Although some of the 40’s cartoons, like the Private SNAFU were brilliant.
I was in the Marines. That video is an old video and they don’t use it anymore in boot camp. Now they have a PMI give the class while you sit in bleachers, least that’s how they did it for me in 2002. And the military rifle training was developed in part by the NRA, because we don’t have terms like “Marine proof” for no god damn reason. So yes it is almost the same class that a civilian would take if they were going to the NRA basic rifle class, because as the one guy on here already said. You get a lot of young kids that came from inner cities that never shot a gun before so it has to be basic. No ones getting turned into an operator in one day.
I’m not in any way thinking this is your one-stop teaching tool for operator training. However, I am wondering what the point of such films would be.
I learned to shoot by shooting. My family learned to shoot by shooting. In fact, pretty much everyone I know learned to shoot by shooting. Not by watching a film and then shooting. It seems like a complete waste of time. Like watching a film about how to drive a car.
Remember, learning shooting skills during military training is very different from the relaxed atmosphere of learning with a friend or family member. You get several basic, broken down steps of the fundamentals drilled into your head day after day at the range (in the IDF it’s breathing control, contact points with the gun, correct posture, positioning of the body and the proper way to squeeze the trigger, for instance). You first get instructed about these in a classroom, along with at least 20 other recruits, then you go over the broken down procedure outside of the range, without ammunition or actually firing the gun (we call this “Dry” training) and then, once you’ve reached a certain proficiency in these steps and do them automatically, you practice them with ammo (“Wet” training).
The basic assumption is that nobody knows anything about firing a weapon.
To get everyone up to speed on this as quickly as possible while they are mentally and physically fatigued, and to avoid a situation in which people make mistakes such as shooting a fellow trainee, you make shooting as formal a procedure as possible. Sure, you might not make them the best marksmen they could have been had they had days and weeks at the range, making mistakes and correcting them themselves, they’ll be good enough for the battlefield in a relatively short amount of time.
Most likely this is the stuff for the test. It may also be used as a sleep aid. Or in full quantities, might qualify as interrogation tool. “DO YOU WANT ME TO TURN THE VIDEO ON AGAIN!!! THEN TALK YOU SONOVA MOTHERLESS GOAT HERDER…”
I don’t know how it worked where you grew up, but we DID learn to drive by watching a film. In Driver’s Education at school. Where the instructors had to take everyone who signed up, and had no way of knowing what, if anything, they knew ahead of time.
At least this way, when you go to the car the first day, the instructor doesn’t have to say, “this is a steering wheel, it angles the tires in the front of the car. What? Oh, right. These are the tires, they are what the car rolls on. This is the front, this is the back, this is the driver’s door. What, you in the second row? . . . Yes, the driver is the one that operates the car. Where was I? . . . ” Saves the instructor time, saves wear and tear on the organization’s equipment, and only wastes the useless time of the students, and who cares about that?
FormerFlyer
> I don’t know how it worked where you grew up, but we DID learn to drive by watching a film. In Driver’s Education at school.
Huh. We had a training car. It had double controls – gas, brake, and steering wheel on the right hand side, where the instructor sat, fully functional, as well as the regular controls on the left.
How weird.
LOL. My high school couldn’t afford one-a them, I’ve actually never seen a dual-control car. Instead we watched endless hours of excruciatingly boring films (I remember most vividly “Egg, Pumpkin, Headache” about the virtues of seatbelt use), studied things like stopping distance out of a textbook, and finally got to drive in a standard car with an automatic transmission. The instructor had a thing about driving WAY over toward the shoulder and would yell if you did two things wrong in a row.
I’m not sure it’s about cost. The one we had was an ancient, battered Studebaker, and I’m pretty sure the high school auto shop made the dual-controls.
So did we. Driver’s Ed was half a semester of classroom, half on the road, and it was a requirement for graduation. My first time ever behind the wheel was on Highway 60 going through Rubidoux. O.O
I’m going to respond to this as an instructor.
I’m a black belt with over twenty years of experience in teaching Shotokan Karate. You are right in thinking that the *only* way to learn something physical is to practice, practice, practice. You completely underestimate the value of knowing what you are supposed to be doing *before* you start practice. The best and fastest way for the student to learn is for the instructor to explain the correct technique in detail, and the student to consciously strive for this technique while practicing. A lot of practice time is generally wasted (in learning bad habits and then correcting the bad habits) if the student is figuring it out as he goes along.
When I teach my students, I instruct them on proper technique before they throw their first punch, which is what this instructional video is attempting to do. I will pit that instruction style against anyone’s because my students generally learn two or three times as quickly as the students of schools that simply throw the students in and expect them to learn proper technique as they go.
So that’s the value of proper instruction: Lots and lots of time saved. (Or equivalently, much better results after X-many months of practice.)
Thank you! This was my favorite reply today.
Marine MP from 1992-1998.
They show the sling looped around the bicep at 1:38, which was made verboten for quals in 1996.
The line, “she tastes like licorice and something feral” is just perfect for that moment.
Are they… Are they going to…?
I anticipate a giant cock-block rearing it’s chaste head in 5, 4, 3, 2,…
I have a buddy who was a Marine PMI/Drill Instructor on Parris, this is the old video that used to teach Basic Marksmanship. He has actually given me some of his PMI classes since the Army teaches a little differently their basic marksmanship. This video reflects more of what is called “known distance” qualification, and also translates over to shooting High-power Service Rifle Competition. Which is why he was showing me the info he did, as we both compete in service rifle matches. The Marines typically (or used to) teach marksmanship out to 500m though this style of shooting, while the army focused on ranges only out to 300m for most soldiers and 500m for Squad Designated Marksmen.
What you see here is the start of military (marine in this case) marksmanship training, this is the foundation on which further “operator” level training is built on. You don’t start with room clearing training and then learn how to shoot accurately at 500 meters, you build the fundamentals up and then learn the “high speed” shooting techniques later. Sort of a Crawl, Walk, Run method of instruction that the military loves to use, start at the lowest level and advance everyone to the highest possible…
I love the blurriness on the artwork here, especially in the first panel. Mick’s eyes are in focus, and things get more blurry the farther away they are. IMO, captures the generally unfocused somewhat-drunk feeling almost perfectly.
Damn. Now I want a drink or two (or five).
If you want to learn how to shoot a rifle, I highly recommend the Appleseed Project as the place to start. If you need to borrow a .22 and some ammo I’m willing to help folks in Central Texas.
Yeah, Alex! You go! (As a lady who nearly always makes the first move, it’s awesome to see that.)
the comment section on this website is the strangest thing ever I mean massive plot point and you guys want to talk about the old USMC training film that he posted to say it was useless he posts somthing about guns and you beg for more plot points DA,fuck
Welcome to the madhouse. Here’s your strait-jacket.
I was actually expecting some video metaphor, such as a train going in a tunnel. I mean I guess the rushing riflemen could be a metaphor for swimmers. Possibly the target could be a metaphor for the egg. 😉
HAHA love the “soundtrack”