WTF OSU ROTC
The ROTC program at the Ohio State University will no longer be able to drill with their bright blue toy guns. Apparently, the site of blue plastic is making too many college kids pee themselves.
I don't know what is worse, the fact that the ROTC has to quit playing with their toy guns because of a bunch of crybabies or the fact that the ROTC is using toy guns to begin with. Why are they not carrying real M16s? What's next, BB guns on the rifle range? Do they still have a rifle range?
I am 20 years older than most of these cadets. That may seem a lot of years difference to them but really that is not that many years. When I was in Junior High School, I was in the local school JROTC program. Instead of wooden or plastic toy guns we were issued real M1903A3 Springfield rifles. We checked them out of the armory AT SCHOOL every day. We drilled, marched and stood ranks with them. Our drill team practiced and competed twirling and throwing real 9 pound rifles, not some wooden or plastic dummy. Our school shooting team competed with 22LR against other schools. They practiced AT SCHOOL at the school rifle range. All JROTC cadets had to shoot and attempt to qualify every year. The JROTC color guard carried real 1911 pistols on bright white lanyards AT SCHOOL during flag ceremonies. The unit even maintained a cannon squad that maintained and fired a small cannon during every home touchdown at all home football games held AT SCHOOL.
A few years ago the U.S. Army could hand a real rifle to an eighth grade boy AT SCHOOL and none of the other eighth through twelfth graders cried. Now, the U.S. Army has to take away the bright blue obviously toy rifles from college ROTC because it makes the sheep students upset.
Good Grief!
I don't know what is worse, the fact that the ROTC has to quit playing with their toy guns because of a bunch of crybabies or the fact that the ROTC is using toy guns to begin with. Why are they not carrying real M16s? What's next, BB guns on the rifle range? Do they still have a rifle range?
I am 20 years older than most of these cadets. That may seem a lot of years difference to them but really that is not that many years. When I was in Junior High School, I was in the local school JROTC program. Instead of wooden or plastic toy guns we were issued real M1903A3 Springfield rifles. We checked them out of the armory AT SCHOOL every day. We drilled, marched and stood ranks with them. Our drill team practiced and competed twirling and throwing real 9 pound rifles, not some wooden or plastic dummy. Our school shooting team competed with 22LR against other schools. They practiced AT SCHOOL at the school rifle range. All JROTC cadets had to shoot and attempt to qualify every year. The JROTC color guard carried real 1911 pistols on bright white lanyards AT SCHOOL during flag ceremonies. The unit even maintained a cannon squad that maintained and fired a small cannon during every home touchdown at all home football games held AT SCHOOL.
A few years ago the U.S. Army could hand a real rifle to an eighth grade boy AT SCHOOL and none of the other eighth through twelfth graders cried. Now, the U.S. Army has to take away the bright blue obviously toy rifles from college ROTC because it makes the sheep students upset.
Good Grief!
Hey, FYI the dummy rifles they're referring to are the ones we use for FTXs. We use the 1903 Springfield for our drill competitions and spinning and all that. You should come check us out sometime! I agree about the ridiculousness of the complaints. We have a ton of restrictions put on us now. But that is life, we have to adapt.
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