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That’s not what the French do. They have an organic recce element at the platoon level. I’m sure they do help with maintenance but like I was saying - if your recce is in the hide beside the tank what was the point of bringing recce along ? I’m all for having replacement crews. I just don’t...

Oh hod the half cock on the bhp

Which is t at all what I said lol.

I’m not against guys shooting on their own. My point was that we shouldn’t rely on sport shooting to develop and maintain skills.

Now with more lead !

I’d suggest we should be providing this through work and not expecting people to do it in their own time.

You don’t shower for an hour, that’s your time to head back to your place, shower, get changed, maybe grab a coffee, and make it back to work

My assumption is that if you have 4 VBL for recce tasks they are out doing those tasks pushed out from the platoon. If your dispersed harbours are close enough together that troops are doing sentry for each other you haven’t actually dispersed. Now to the topic actually being discussed: not...

I’m familiar with the video, I’d alway take Brendan’s stuff either way a grain of salt. He’s a good guy but at the end of the day he’s a graphic designer with some contacts. It’s cool everyone pounds track - I’d expect in operations that the investigation guys in the VBLs are in OPs / doing...

VBL “full of dismounts” is a driver, gunner, and crew commander all of whom have their own tasks as they form a recce assset within the troop. Nothing I’ve seen supports them being there to help with maintenance although I’m sure they could if not otherwise employed, although I imagine...

Is it required or just required for how we do it? Presumably the French are able to maintain their tanks with an auto loader, and the Russians have been running 3 man crews for 50 years. We get into these cycles where we’ve done something a certain way for so long we forget to reassess and...

lol no. We work 8-4 or some variation there of 90% of the time. When we’re in the field yes it’s 24/7, and you’ll likely spend 2-3 months if the year in the field. This whole on duty at all times thing falls apart when you realize we have rules about doing things while on duty or not.

The drills should be taught with the pistol holstered. So for the load, draw pistol to work space, remove magazine from the pouch, insert into pistol etc etc.

The CAF doesn’t like carrying pistols readied in the holster. The C22 is specifically not to be carried like this unless some stipulations are met - one of which being the member has shot pwt 3, don’t ask my what a marksmanship test is supposed to prove ref safe weapons handling. The “hot...

It’s 4000 in the Leo, but that’s for both and I believe the bin itself is only 4 belts but I could t find details and am probably wrong.

Is it 880 in the can on a Leo 2? That’s what @KevinB is getting at. Obviously it’s not unlimited. It just represents substantially more sustained fire power than a section. Does that matter? Is it material to their understanding of how their Meekavs employed the small space they have? Because...

If the dismounts are behind the tank like that they aren’t punching.

There’s actually some really strong arguments to do the complete opposite and build fundamentals on the much harder to shoot pistol to make shooting the rifle very easy. That said the fact that we’re talking about using pistols in a thread about pistols probably makes sense.

Yeah just saw the actual post. I wonder if a dremel made accidental contact with the holster.

I’d put money on them being carried in the empty mag shingles they have on their vests. Or this is a static range and they didn’t bother to grab holsters as the shooting program doesn’t require them and actively discourages training the draw as part of engaging.