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usonian

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2. I saw a movie long ago about a kid who was ordered by the court to join the Marines (they used to do that, IIRC)

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Mon Jun 30, 2025, 08:36 PM

Jun 30

The drill instructor saw that he was jerking the trigger (being a photographer, I am ever so gentle with my shutter finger)

So, he drove a staple into his trigger finger to make his trigger pull ever so gentle.

Not sure how fictitious this is.

I joined the Coast Guard and gun training at boot camp then was two days, and it rained for rifle range.

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