This morning was Fathers' Day and I went out and shot a bit. The RO had a great "COMMAND VOICE" and I asked him if he was a vet GI RO and, yes. This ring of command brought back some memories. One of those was at Army ROTC advanced camp at Fort Sill on the M-60 Machinegun range in 1970. The range officers all had cleaning rods which they used to liberally whang upon our old M-1 steel pots. There seemed to be no reason for this random whacking, apart from the enjoyment of an E-4 whacking a future butter bar 2Lt on his helmet.

The other thing I have seen was range officers standing on men's ankles to get their feet flat in prone.