Would they really train people with live rounds?

i was thinking the same

i'm sure with elite soldiers they use live rounds but with new recruits even for Marines i highly doubt it. but then again it was set like 30 years ago so who knows if policies have changed

@cocacolaistherealthing

i can only speak of my own personal experience, which was army basic training at fort knox in 1996. yes it’s true, they used real machineguns firing over us. from what i was told, the machineguns (M60s) were bolted or chained into a fixed position so they couldn’t accidentally fire low enough to hit us as we crawled, but whether they would have hit someone standing up i couldn’t say.

real bullets flying over me didn’t bother me one bit, to be totally honest, not because i’m a tough guy but simply because i was too mentally and physically exhausted for anything other than more exertion to bother me. i was pretty much in a waking dream state at that point. basic was like football practice...ALL DAY LONG, and sometimes much of the night.

that scene in the movie where the dude stood up...i’m not buying it. maybe something like that happened back in the 1950s when someone who was unstable to begin with just freaked out and stood up, who knows, but a normal person doing that, someone who’d already been through basic training? hard to believe. (i think at that point in the movie they were in sniper school, right? implying they’d already been through basic? i can’t remember for sure.)

I went through army boot camp at Ft Leonard Wood MO (we called it Ft Lost in the Woods) in 1972, and they never did that to us. But as to other bases at other times I have heard that it actually was done. Kinda dumb, though.








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I went through basic training at Ft. Jackson in 1993, and the rounds were live. At least, that's what we were told.

probably not

A bit of googling reveals that yes they do, crazy as that sounds. But I’ve read the M60s or whatever they’re using are bolted down and aimed high so as to avoid a tragedy like wee see in this movie.