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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
I can believe it for armoured troops. Back in the day our armoured crew fired their personal weapons on exercise about once a year - they'd be throwing their issued blanks at us infantry. Mind you, we were very glad to get it as there seemed to be a serious shortage of blanks for training for some unknown reason - we'd go for days with only 1 mag while supposed to be conducting offensive actions (which chew through the ammo if done right). Most of the time we were reduced to yelling "bang".
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And MILES? I saw that only for major exercises, or the time that for some reason we got it for a joint exercise in the National Guard with the Air National Guard Security Police. And I mean MAJOR exercises, such as an NTC rotation or Team Spirit in Korea.