"Turning round with a loaded weapon during a shoot is stupid and very dangerous. In my experience, such behaviour met with a swift corrective boot or fist."
I was always taught to get control of the weapon - or at least the end of or close to the end of the barrel first so you could at least control where it was pointed - and then sort the soldier out.
I know of one instance a bloke turned around with an F1 and fired it, stitching a whole mag alongside the Sgt's leg. He got belted.
And wasn't General Patraeus shot in the chest in an incident on a range where someone turned around with a weapon and fired ?
I know swift justice via a Size 10 boot isn't the done thing now but sometimes it is the best method to save lives.
barnstormer1968
Thanks for the run down of units, I am reasonably up with UK SF units
but good info. (I must go and do some research on 49 Para
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The SAS / SF people I know wouldn't, AND don't feel the need to say it out loud and when they do, it is generally not "SAS" but something a bit more subtle - like in Aust, the common one is "from the West" (the SAS being in Perth, Western Australia).
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