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Originally Posted by Abbott Shaull
Ouch. Yeah I had to ask because the way it was written. So do the Drill Sergeants at Fort Knox do any of the tank gunnery instructions or is this done by a support unit that specializes in giving these instruction to units as they rotate through their Basic Training/Advance Individual Training cycles.
I know at Benning, there were member of the the 29th Infantry that would do more detail instructions of the various weapons system beyond the basic upkeep of the M16.
I also realize a lot depending from training unit to training unit on how much support they would get from various support units assigned to the various Training Brigades.
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When I was stationed at Knox, the Armor School used instructors rather than using the DIs. The problem was that they had to rotate through the instructor's course in order to pick up the Hotel identifier, so you would see a 19K30H running a section. The problem was that the school had a eleven-month backlog when I was there so a lot of instructors were E-5/6s pulled from various bases or, and this is what I hated, they would pull the best students and make them "acting corporals" and use them as instructors.
When I went to Germany for my 2nd tour I was assigned as a Section Sergeant and I always made it a point to ask if the new personal had acting corporals, that told just how much retraining I had to do to get the kids qualified.