Sunday - August 30, 2009

Soldiers banned from training with live rounds.  Sorry state of modern military …

Millions for asylum seekers, welfare frauds , immigrants and the 2012 olympics, but damn little for defence by comparison.
What a sorry state.  But hey BMEWS ... this is NOT the first time in Brit military history that ammo has seen this restriction.
The Royal Navy in the days of iron men and wooden ships didn’t always use live rounds as they had a powder problem.
And so they had a restriction on practise gunnery.

Not so our American navy .... apparently we had enough for our smaller navy and PRACTISE WE DID!

Soldiers are being told they cannot train with live ammunition unless they are due to go to Afghanistan, according to reports.

Ian Johnston
Published: 12:18AM BST 30 Aug 2009

Ministry of Defence cutbacks mean that troops are being issue with blank rounds, which cost about 10p, instead of live rounds which cost about 30p. The MoD said the “ever-improving quality” of computer simulation had also reduced the need for live fire training.
Sources told The Sunday Times that the ban would affect everyone in the Territorial Army and also some regular Army units.

An officer told the newspaper: “We’ve been told we cannot fire live rounds unless we are going to Afghanistan. How on earth is a professional soldier supposed to be able to keep up with his skills like that?  “It is absolutely wretched. It is a total farce.”

Troops must pass a yearly test showing they can properly maintain their weapons and shoot with a reasonable degree of accuracy.
Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, who was an officer in the infantry, said cutting back on live firing could have serious consequences.
“The idea that our front line reserves should not be able to use live rounds is quite extraordinary,” he said.

“We can’t have a popgun army. The next thing you know we’ll be reduced to Dad’s Army-style training, shouting ‘bang bang.’”
The Ministry of Defence said: “The top priority is to train those about to deploy to Afghanistan, but the training of others continues.
“The ever-improving quality of simulation technologies has reduced the need to rely on live-fire exercises, although they still play an important role.”

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ok, I am NO kind of expert on weapons and such but still do not understand how puter simulation can be a good enough sub. for real thing.
Anyone ,,, explain it to me.

Posted by peiper     on 08/30/2009 at 03:11 AM   
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