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Originally Posted by trooper
I'd be interested in your thoughts. However I believe I may be able to guess the reasons for and against conventional troops actually live firing besides being put on detail to drag chutes at the riggers shop because nothing else was on the training docket for the day.
6 years with the 82nd Airborne and believe I only lived fired the M16, the M203 and M60 3 or 4 times in six years of AD service. 
Most day's in garrison were spent cleaning a conex or getting haircuts at the SGM's request. I honestly dont think they trusted with live fire and or the budget that was in place at the time.
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Were you an 11B? I was only there two years in purgatory. But we shot more often then I was lead to believe before being sent there. The quality of training could of been better, looking back.
I drive thru Bragg using a road lined with Ranges. These days those Ranges are occupied constantly.
Know how you can tell if a Unit is training. I look at their Ranges. If there is grass growing on the Berms. They ain't training. Very little grass growing on the Berms along Plank Road these days. Has to be driving Range Control nuts
When Brass from the regular Army would visit Range 37. It was obvious they were disappointed with the appearance of our flat Ranges. All the Ranges and Berms are dirt, no pretty grass growing there. Grass growing on a Range is just wrong.