Army teaching poor rifle grip?

View · by **Scratch** on Wed Aug 26, 2020 1:43 pm

I was watching a Shooting USA show today. It was recorded a while ago. They were showing coverage of the 2019 All Army Small Arms Championship at Fort Benning.
There was one shooter there (a Major) who was competing, who I noticed had a very unusual off hand grip on his rifle...

View · by **LarryFlew** on Wed Aug 26, 2020 2:01 pm

Maybe he is preparing for being sent to war. Broken thumb sends you back home.

View · by **dismal** on Wed Aug 26, 2020 2:18 pm

Looks warm.

View · by **hammAR** on Wed Aug 26, 2020 5:22 pm

...a Major was all you needed to know.................. :twisted:

View · by **Holland&Holland** on Wed Aug 26, 2020 6:10 pm

He is not going to hold it there for long.

View · by **LarryFlew** on Thu Aug 27, 2020 6:57 pm

hammAR wrote:...a Major was all you needed to know..................

View · by **Rotary12** on Wed Sep 16, 2020 12:52 pm

You mean that's not a thumb hole? :roll:

View · by **crbutler** on Wed Sep 16, 2020 1:14 pm

Isn’t that unit patch a USMC patch?

View · by **hard h2o** on Thu Sep 17, 2020 10:56 am

crbutler wrote:Isn’t that unit patch a USMC patch?

Maybe but the camo pattern is all Army.

View · by **jdege** on Thu Sep 17, 2020 11:03 am

Unless someone is using the wrong side of their phone, it's a right shoulder patch, which means prior service unit.
He may have been a Marine, and is Army now.

View · by **xd ED** on Thu Sep 17, 2020 11:37 am

jdege wrote:Unless someone is using the wrong side of their phone, it's a right shoulder patch, which means prior service unit.
He may have been a Marine, and is Army now.

If the phone was reversed, so too would be the poster in the background.

View · by **Bearcatrp** on Thu Sep 17, 2020 3:59 pm

jdege wrote:Unless someone is using the wrong side of their phone, it's a right shoulder patch, which means prior service unit.
He may have been a Marine, and is Army now.

Marines must have taught him that! :bolt:

View · by **hammAR** on Fri Sep 18, 2020 11:09 am

Guess again...........

View · by **hard h2o** on Fri Sep 18, 2020 11:11 am

jdege wrote:Unless someone is using the wrong side of their phone, it's a right shoulder patch, which means prior service unit.
He may have been a Marine, and is Army now.

Not just prior service. It denotes having been in combat with a certain unit.

I was in the 103rd COSCOM. We transitioned to the 88th ARCOM. No combat with either unit. When we transitioned I switched my patch on the left from the cactus to the crossed 8s. No patch on the right.

Hard to have been in combat when you you ran printing presses.

View · by **crbutler** on Fri Sep 18, 2020 11:27 am

If he was in the marines, then that demonstrates it is possible to be an “ex marine” lol

Those guys take their rifle skills seriously.