garett
23 September 2000, 23:42
Yesterday a group of students from the University of New Brunswick (including myself) from the Military Strategic Studies Program were in the audience at the annual firepower demonstration. Pretty well every thing from a C-7 rifle up was fired. Its nice to see that Canada can still blow stuff up and kill wood targets with the best of them. The highlight of the day for myself was when the sniper firing the new 50. cal sniper rifle missed the target twice. Way to go sniper, one shot one kill. It made it so much worst when we heard over the loudspeaker "he missed". Ooops the microphone wasn't supposed to pick that guy up in the background. Well at least the TOW missiles that were fired hit their targets. I wonder if we missed everything on purpose and blamed it on out of date equipment the senior officers there might be shamed into pushing for a higher budget.