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Downtime brings weapons practice
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Downtime brings weapons practice
Other Kennedy news: Intense action cools down
By Rachel Davis
Times-Union staff writer
ABOARD THE USS JOHN F. KENNEDY -- The butt of the 12-gauge shotgun rests against my shoulder just below the collarbone. My left hand, stretched forward, supports the end of the 12-pound weapon and the tip of my right index finger rests on the trigger.
One member of the Navy SEAL team on board the carrier is explaining how to aim as he steadies me for the shotgun's powerful kick. So with a trembling hand I pull back on the trigger.
Nothing happens.
"Just aim and shoot," he says.
After underestimating the strength of the trigger, I try again. My weight kicks back on my right leg, and my shoulder jerks with the power of the shot.
Water splashes out of the wake as bullets from our weapons pierce the surface.
For practice and for show the SEAL team pulls out its weapons once every couple of months on deployment.
The specialists seem to draw quite a crowd on the carrier, including the "Gun Boss," the officer in charge of the weapons department. Today's a no-fly day for the carrier air wing, so members from Jacksonville's HS-5 squadron are watching the team practice.
Squadronmates take turns on the automatic and semi-automatic rifles, 9 mm submachine guns and handguns. Also on display is a grenade launcher, used to take out the enemy within a 10-foot radius of the explosion.
The grenade makes a loud "phoooomp" sound as it's launched over the fantail of the ship. I test all the weapons until I absolutely cannot lift my right arm due to the bruise forming on my shoulder.
Staff writer Rachel Davis can be reached at (904) 359-4614 or via e-mail at racheldavis@jacksonville.com.
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/062702/met_9771479.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Other Kennedy news: Intense action cools down
By Rachel Davis
Times-Union staff writer
ABOARD THE USS JOHN F. KENNEDY -- The butt of the 12-gauge shotgun rests against my shoulder just below the collarbone. My left hand, stretched forward, supports the end of the 12-pound weapon and the tip of my right index finger rests on the trigger.
One member of the Navy SEAL team on board the carrier is explaining how to aim as he steadies me for the shotgun's powerful kick. So with a trembling hand I pull back on the trigger.
Nothing happens.
"Just aim and shoot," he says.
After underestimating the strength of the trigger, I try again. My weight kicks back on my right leg, and my shoulder jerks with the power of the shot.
Water splashes out of the wake as bullets from our weapons pierce the surface.
For practice and for show the SEAL team pulls out its weapons once every couple of months on deployment.
The specialists seem to draw quite a crowd on the carrier, including the "Gun Boss," the officer in charge of the weapons department. Today's a no-fly day for the carrier air wing, so members from Jacksonville's HS-5 squadron are watching the team practice.
Squadronmates take turns on the automatic and semi-automatic rifles, 9 mm submachine guns and handguns. Also on display is a grenade launcher, used to take out the enemy within a 10-foot radius of the explosion.
The grenade makes a loud "phoooomp" sound as it's launched over the fantail of the ship. I test all the weapons until I absolutely cannot lift my right arm due to the bruise forming on my shoulder.
Staff writer Rachel Davis can be reached at (904) 359-4614 or via e-mail at racheldavis@jacksonville.com.
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/062702/met_9771479.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878