PFC Ingle: A Scout that’s out

So far during the 2009 KTC gunnery I have participated in the HMMWV qualification tables where I shot top gun on my Mk.19 in my troop. The days seemed long and the nights way to short! We slept on our vehicles,or napped I should say when we wernt on the fireing line.

The HMMWV gunnery lasted a total of 4 days and then we moved onto the M-4 zeroing range and qualifications. Daily wake ups are finally starting to regulate again back to the good ole’ 0500  work calls. Since my gunnery is over with ive been helping a lot in supporting the Bradley gunnery and preparing for a newly added on “table 9” of the Bradley gunnery.Normal gunnery would only consist of 8 tables but this year an extra has been added on to help us scouts keep our skills sharp on dismounted Ops. We have been using the  Army adopted “crawl,walk,run” idea by doing multiple dry runs before being issued live rounds. Overall im pretty excited about doing dismounted Ops and actually engaging targets while moving in tactical formations en-route to the the ultimate objective, which is a call for fire mission on enemy forces located on the side of a mountain where live rounds will actually be called in to give our mortars training also.

Overall, this gunnery of the 3 I have been to while stationed in Korea has been the most successful,fast paced and properly ran ones of all and theres not to many complaints I have, overcoming the bouncy balls called  “eggs” in the dfac is about as hard as it gets out here! Haha.

Pfc Ingle,Kyle
Apache Trp. 4-7 Cav
19D Cav. Scout
South Bend, Indiana