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Subject: [Leica] Re: Marines - Full Metal Jacket
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Fri Oct 13 15:32:30 2006
References: <200610131923.k9DJN7wu053873@server1.waverley.reid.org> <C1B6CF61-E8DB-40A7-A67B-59A0A240F4D0@optonline.net>

Smoking is very bad for you, even without bullets. Whitman had a brain 
tumor and Oswald was a dupe of the right-wing Tejas/Cubano idiocy which 
Castro shafted. Additionally, if you can do that with a cig and a bullet 
you should know Oswald/FBI marksmen couldn't with a 6.5mm Carcano. I 
almost bought one to test my "he didn't do it theory" some years back 
but didn't. One look at the darn thing and I knew why the Italians 
helped the Germans lose WWII.

Walt


Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:

> This a portion of the "Full Metal Jacket" shooting script that has  
> the rifle training sequence:
>
>      Shots of the platoon firing their rifles.
>
>      On the third day of our seventh week we move
>      to the rifle range and shoot holes in paper
>      targets.
>
>      Later they are grouped around Gerheim. "Does
> anyone known who Charles Whitman was?"
>      Blank faces.
>      "None of you dumbasses knows?"
>      Cowboy slowly raises his hand.
>      "Private Cowboy?"
>      "Was he the guy that shot a lot of people
> from a roof?"
>      "That's right, Private Cowboy.  He shot and
> killed twelve people from a 28-story observation
> tower at the University of Texas, from distances
> of up to four hundred yards."
>      The recruits look impressed.
>      "Does anybody know who Lee Harvey Oswald
> was?"
>      That's easy.  Almost every hand goes up.
>      "Private Snowball?"
>      Private Snowball says, "He shot Kennedy, Sir!"
>      "That's right.  And do you know how far away
> he was?"
>      "It was pretty far.  From that book
> suppository building, sir!"
>      "Two hundred and fifty" feet.  He was two
> hundred and fifty feet away and shooting at a
> moving target.  He got off three shots with a bolt
> action rifle in six seconds, and got two hits,
> including a head shot.  Do you know where those
> men learned to shoot like that?"
>      No one knows. Joker raises his hand.
>      "Private Joker."
>      "In the Marines sir?"
>      "In the Marines.  Outstanding!  Now those
> people did not put their Marine training to a good
> purpose but they showed what a Marine with his
> rifle can do, and before I am through you will all
> be able to do the same thing."
>
>
> Now I prefer to do all my shooting with a Leica, but I also know that  
> I can shoot a bullet lengthwise through a cigarette at a distance of  
> 50 ft. At least I could 50 years ago.
>
>
> Larry Z
>
>
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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Re: Marines - Full Metal Jacket)
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