Word: marksmanship
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...marshal's work is his weapon. These agents have the highest standards for marksmanship in the law-enforcement business. I learned that actually firing the gun is almost an afterthought. Much more important were my stance, my breathing, my grip and my focus on the front sight of the gun. If a human target was wearing body armor, I was told to aim at the lower abdomen. "People will bleed out more quickly," my instructor said, "and a moving head can be hard...
Toward the end of her birthday festivities last weekend, a pleasantly drunk Jenny L. Jacobi ’07 cut the line at the men’s bathroom and sought relief at the first available urinal, where she exhibited remarkable marksmanship given her state of inebriation and general lack of a penis. However, the gent at the adjacent urinal became discomforted by her presence , and perhaps also by her superior aim, asking her to relocate while in mid-stream. Jacobi turned to face her accuser, stating defiantly, “It?...
...congressional decision obliged TSA to drop its opposition and design a training program. Its technical aspects, including marksmanship and non-lethal self-defense, were excellent, pilots concurred. But after the 48 flyers - selected from a list of volunteers to bring diversity of gender, type of aircraft, corporation, age and experience - were two days into their training, they got into a combative exchange with a TSA lawyer, sharply questioning some of the rules he was laying out and at one point laughing at his response. That brought a reprimand from a TSA psychologist, and then from the TSA official...
After a physical examination and an aptitude test, Myat San was placed in the army branch and sent off to 10 weeks of accelerated and intense training at boot camp. Young men enter the Basic Military Training Center and are confronted with exhausting physical training, obstacle courses and marksmanship exercises. Myat San recalls the harsh period when he observed smart-alecks transformed into dutiful, fit soldiers. “You’ve just finished your exams, and you’re rather pudgy around the middle,” he says. “And the officers yell...
...don’t be fooled. A tenacious rebounder in high school, Martin is perhaps most well known for his long-range game, having led the Shawnee Renegades to a state championship his junior year on the strength of his marksmanship...