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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UnSafe" data-source="post: 1335262" data-attributes="member: 100">Even worse/ dumber/ meaner/ funny (To NCO's anyway) than scope eye- We used to get an annual tasking to support training ROTC Advanced Camp cadets, just prior to their commissioning. A couple buddies and I were covering M1911 pistol familiarization, and we were surprised that more than a few Cadets had never touched a handgun, let alone cranky old range whore 1911s. One candidate was having trouble getting rounds on paper at 7 yd, so my buddies, being 2 of the finest NCO's the 82nd had to offer, suggested (jokingly) that the Cadet hold the pistol up close to her face to get a better sight picture. Cut forward to her next turn up at bat, buddies had long since laughed it off, assuming she understood it was a joke- She HAD completed the morning's weapon orientation and safety class....I was napping in the shade on a pallet of ammo and got called to the firing line for an injury. Seems that a Cadet had a big cut and bruise on her cheek and eye socket. Ended up going to surgery the next day to reassemble her orbital rim and get a cosmetic closure. Bruised her globe as well. We all got an ass chewing, even the rest of us just for being there, but our 1SG realized that it was a joke and she was dumb enough to swallow it..</blockquote>