Live Range Reflections

Live range is like Purgatory. We practically do nothing but wait and rot the whole day. Well, the shooting part is fun though, but the commanders kept shouting at us. Try concentrating to take aim when u have 20 seconds which is your own time and target and someone is screaming at you from behind. Not easy.

Day shooting is fun as it is much easier to hit the target and taking aim doesn’t require too much time. Apparently, the standing posture was the easiest for me this time instead of the foxhole position. The target seemed bigger than the IMT targets.

Night shooting didn’t go too well because we were all hot and uncomfortable after waiting a good 6 – 7 hours plus? However we got to fire tracer rounds which were pretty cool like Star Wars! It was definitely harder to hit the target this time round because targets were dark and hard to define. Silhouetted targets were still visible while the small blinking targets were hard to lock on. My eyes would get blurry and it made it even harder to hit the target.

About IA: Once we encounter an IA, we practically lose a round because some of them could actually be dented. Not taking chances, we had no choice but to give up that round. IA 4 times and poof! No more marksmen. Plus, the remedying IA takes time. By the time we remedied one, the target might have gone down.

Funny occasions when we saw wild boars and the way our commanders dealt with them. Fortunately the wild boars weren’t aggressive and no one got hurt.

Overall views on range are that it was an experience no one had before. I would love to go again, but only at the IMT theatre this time. =P