{"id":250,"date":"2011-08-24T17:06:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T23:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2011-08-24T17:06:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T23:06:52","slug":"and-yet-another-somewhat-interesting-basic-training-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/and-yet-another-somewhat-interesting-basic-training-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"And yet another somewhat interesting basic training fact."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, everyone in the Army knows how to shoot the M16 rifle and most people in the world know that this is the weapon the US Army uses. Here is a little fact, I never shot the M16 until after I switched to 93C (Air Traffic Control) from 19K (M1A1 Armor Crewman) about 4 years after I joined the Army. As a 19K (Tanker), our primary weapon, is, well, a tank. The weapon we carry is a 9MM pistol, which we learned how to shoot in basic. We did have a 1 day class on how to shoot the M16, but on our way to the range to actually shoot it, it started to storm, so we never got a chance to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So, everyone in the Army knows how to shoot the M16 rifle and most people in the world know that this is the weapon the US Army uses. Here is a little fact, I never shot the M16 until after I switched to 93C (Air Traffic Control) from 19K (M1A1 Armor Crewman) about 4 years after I joined the Army. As a 19K (Tanker), our primary weapon, is, well, a tank. The weapon we carry is a 9MM pistol, which we learned how to shoot in basic. We did have a 1 day class on how to shoot the M16, but on our way to the range to actually shoot it, it started to storm, so we never got a chance to.","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}