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Red Snake
10-30-2009, 06:56 PM
What the heck? "A sailor accidentally fires off 3 rounds while cleaning the machine gun?" What a dipstick.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/30/poland.us.navy.shoot/index.html
l3it3r
10-30-2009, 08:27 PM
my favorite comment on that page is "polish police boarded the ship and wanted to know how many Americans it takes to..."
Red Snake
10-30-2009, 08:43 PM
my favorite comment on that page is "polish police boarded the ship and wanted to know how many Americans it takes to..."

Hahaha, that's good.
Matt McKenzie
10-31-2009, 12:49 AM
At least it was only a 240B, could have been a lot worse with anything bigger than 7.62. Anyways, it's amazing how many times this stuff happens...unreal, what happened to all the training?!?!
thestereogod
10-31-2009, 10:40 AM
It seems every time we got to the range we hear about another retard that shot himself or the clearing barrel, and lucky for me Range Instructor is one of the jobs I could get after school.....:confused2:
snow
11-01-2009, 07:48 PM
This is wild, can't tell if its complacency or what. You know sometimes when you know your job too well, and it gets boring? That's when stuff like this happens, when you get comfortable and treat tasks like a machine.

Just sayin
Red Snake
11-01-2009, 10:01 PM
This is wild, can't tell if its complacency or what. You know sometimes when you know your job too well, and it gets boring? That's when stuff like this happens, when you get comfortable and treat tasks like a machine.

Just sayin

I still just can't see this happening. How could you miss a freakin ammo belt hanging out of the gun before you pulled the trigger????:confused:
snow
11-01-2009, 11:32 PM
maybe he was talking to someone, answering a ringing phone and texting at the same time, all while trying to change the song on his ipod. oh, and servcing the wep ;)

im a big benefit of the doubt giver. lol
Matt McKenzie
11-01-2009, 11:59 PM
There is never an excuse for a negligent discharge. Hopefully the person responsible gets reprimanded!
acezhigh24
06-10-2010, 11:20 AM
At least it was only a 240B, could have been a lot worse with anything bigger than 7.62. Anyways, it's amazing how many times this stuff happens...unreal, what happened to all the training?!?!

Training only goes so far..... Unfortunately you can't cure stupid..... BELIEVE ME.. I'm in the Navy, so I'm used to it....
Matt McKenzie
07-17-2010, 01:19 PM
Training only goes so far..... Unfortunately you can't cure stupid..... BELIEVE ME.. I'm in the Navy, so I'm used to it....

You do have a point!