Pentagon to Destroy $1.2 Billion in Surplus Ammo

[rebelsoul]

When I ran the range tower I always had a suppressive fire exercise. I was ordered to expend all ammo, so I at least my troops got some useful training out of it. The extra ammo was issued incase we had some bolos. We were a signal unit so we rarely had any trigger time. I would run the targets wide open and berate any firing position that didn't keep them pinned down. In our AAR, the lessons about controling your fire and not burning through a mag to quickly were always highlighted; its hard to keep the dummies down during a mag change. The veiw from the tower was "AWESOME".