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Article: FORT BRAGG PARATROOPERS LEARN SAFETY IS FIRST POINT OF PERFORMANCE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 7, 2009
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FORT BRAGG, N.C., March 3 -- The U.S. Army issued the following news release:
What happens when you combine 43, M2 50-caliber machine guns, 11, 240B machine guns, two MK-19 automatic grenade launchers and 100,000 rounds of ammunition with a battalion of paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division on a Fort Bragg weapons range?
"They just let it rip," answers Sgt. Joshua S. Daly, a truck driver with Company A, 782nd Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team.
And while placing rounds downrange and on target is a key skill, the first and primary concern of every Soldier on the range Feb. 5 was not accurate shooting, but rather the safe and proper handling of the weapons, said Staff ...