March 6th, 2009
Sgt. David Fisher of Woodbridge, Va., qualifies with an advanced combat optical gunsight on his M4 Carbine at Fort Carson, Colorado Springs, Colo., Feb. 12. Sgt. Joshua Gillespie, a range safety, informs Fisher which direction to adjust his aim if he misses the target. Both Soldiers are assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3rd Battalion, 157th Field Artillery, Colorado Army National Guard and are scheduled to deploy to Iraq later this year. Photo by Staff Sgt. Liesl Marelli
The advanced combat optical gunsight is a Trijicon.
Pfc. Joseph Emery, a multiple launch rocket system crewmember with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3rd Battalion, 157th Field Artillery, Colorado Army National Guard, fires his 9mm pistol at a Fort Carson pop-up range in Colorado Springs, Colo., Feb. 12. Soldiers are required to engage a minimum of 17 of 30 targets in order to qualify. Photo by Staff Sgt. Liesl Marelli
At one point there was speculation that the military might be shifting away from the M9 9mm, but a recent order for more, the largest pistol order since WW2, shows that the 9 is here to stay.
March 7th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
A crying shame, OUR troops saddled with the most one of the most useless POS round in the world, and in a Beretta for crying out loud…
I saw an XDm the other day that had an ambidextrous slide safety system, totally USELESS on an XD, but Springfield was trying to get a foot in the door with a government bid I heard and that slide safety was a requirement…
March 8th, 2009 at 12:07 am
I’m loving the “cup and saucer” those guardsmen are using!
March 9th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Now that is how a kneeling position should look. They need to teach the Canuks pictured on Murdoc.
TexasFred – If any of them are using a pistol in combat, something has gone terribly wrong and a different pistol won’t fix it. I’ll argue all day about what kind of rifle our soldiers should carry but really don’t care about pistols.