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Think it might be gone this year. We had a whole load of people trained up on it at the start of the year. Officers, ncos and a couple of privates.
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The Bren is not on any current training syllabus.Originally posted by womble View Post
Next weekend will be the last time it will be fired in competition (where have I heard that before? - there must be an echo!
), as well as the BAP.
Good luck to all competitors - I hope the weather is better than last year!!"Fellow-soldiers of the Irish Republican Army, I have just received a communication from Commandant Pearse calling on us to surrender and you will agree with me that this is the hardest task we have been called upon to perform during this eventful week, but we came into this fight for Irish Independence in obedience to the commands of our higher officers and now in obedience to their wishes we must surrender. I know you would, like myself, prefer to be with our comrades who have already fallen in the fight - we, too, should rather die in this glorious struggle than submit to the enemy." Volunteer Captain Patrick Holahan to 58 of his men at North Brunswick Street, the last group of the Four Courts Garrison to surrender, Sunday 30 April 1916.Comment
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Not looking good.Originally posted by Vickers View PostThe Bren is not on any current training syllabus.
Next weekend will be the last time it will be fired in competition (where have I heard that before? - there must be an echo! ), as well as the BAP.
Good luck to all competitors - I hope the weather is better than last year!!
Saturday : Probably dry and bright in many places for much of the day, with sunny spells and just well scattered showers - but wet and windy weather will move in from the Atlantic later Saturday and Saturday night to affect the west and south especially but probably all areas by Sunday.
Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.Comment
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Hi there
You want to fire a classic gun and have good weather as well? Don't you know that it's compulsory to go shooting in the rain and the wind and whatever else the weather gods can throw at you.It's probably in the syllabus that you have to be freezing and soaking wet (in your pool issue wet-gear) to properly experience live machine-gun firing.
regards
GttCComment
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That may be fine for us normal types, but what about the elite of the shooting teams? They can't be expected to shoot in inclement weather.
Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.Comment
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Heaven forbid! Imagine they dont even get chairs and a table with parasol to fire from!!
"The Question is not: how far you will take this? The Question is do you possess the constitution to go as far as is needed?"Comment
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Well I'll be on the recieving end of both the inclement weather and the Bren this weekend....Covid 19 is not over ....it's still very real..Hand Hygiene, Social Distancing and Masks.. keep safeComment
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Originally posted by Docman View Post
Army logic
Draw up a new syllabus and put in a weapon that must be fired in order to be upgraded when there isn't enough weapons or instructorsComment
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Hey murph, just remember to point the giving end away from you and down range.Originally posted by hptmurphy View Post
"The Question is not: how far you will take this? The Question is do you possess the constitution to go as far as is needed?"Comment
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Originally posted by womble View PostSyllabus was changed earlier this year.Originally posted by KermitComment
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Syllabus has changed, ohh right, so I was among the last of the people to be trained on the bren?
Personally, I will believe it when I see it. Sure the syllabus has been changed but couldnt see enough weapons or insttructos being ready to train on them. live in hope thoughcourage, endurance, mateship and sacrificeComment
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Hi Murph
see if you can take a few pictures, will you?
regards
GttCComment
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Have a look at the syllabus for the RDF PNCO course for the gpmg
"Lesson 3: Magazine filling, loading and unloading"
looks like someone just did a Ctrl H...You're even dumber than I tell people
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lol.. good one......Originally posted by Big Al View Post
"There is nothing braver then the heart of a volunteer" Lt. Col. Dolittle, USAC, 1941.Comment
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Em.... sorry ......will be in the butts for the LMG so providing photos is a definite no no from my perspective..even I'm not looney tunes enough to try photo brens in action from that perspective.Covid 19 is not over ....it's still very real..Hand Hygiene, Social Distancing and Masks.. keep safeComment
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