Will Marine Marksmanship Training
Save St. Valentine's Day?
Last year, at a family reunion on Mount Ida, Aunt Aphrodite asked Clio for ideas that might improve the sad and sorry state of modern-day romance. Without hesitation, the spokesmuse for The Tactical Notebook responded with a hale and hearty ‘send in the Marines’. Thus was born the program to send Cupids to Marine Corps Recruit Depots for intensive refresher training in the art of marksmanship.
‘At first’, said Ed Memoire, a Cupid First Class currently serving his two hundred and twentieth enlistment, ‘I didn’t think I could hit anything at 500 yards. But Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Lamour gave me the confidence that I needed. He’s a real sweetheart’.
‘By the way’, Memoire added, ‘if the object of your affection likes to read military history of an especially rarified sort, you can celebrate St. Valentine’s Day by giving a gift subscription to The Tactical Notebook.
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Further to Gy. Sgt. Hathcock’s sage advice there is no where better than the MTU at Quantico where they have developed the new M1A1 Bow with heart string material and repurposed the penetrator arrow design which can penetrate even the coldest hearts. Any Cupid’s looking to up their game and improve their ratio of success in the love business ought to get in touch with the MTU.
As Gunnery Sargent Carlos Hathcock told the 6th IOC class in November of 1978, there is nothing more dangerous on the battlefield than one well aimed round down range!”