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    OT: Teaching Moments from your experience.

    True story: After weapons classroom training, we went to the ranges to fire most of the weapons. The 60mm mortar can be fired in a "handheld" position - baseplate in the ground, left arm of operator acting as the bipod. The deflection range (determines the angle of the fired round) is 0 - 88...
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    OT: Teaching Moments from your experience.

    I had just been assigned to a team after over a year in training when the company went to the mortar range. Being new and low in rank, I participated but in a low-key fashion. I offered my "opinion" several times to the mostly Southeast Asian conflict veteran sergeants but tried to be diffident...