The Baldwin photo makes a lot more sense now on multiple levels.
Feel free to use it. It usually gets a good laugh. The ones who don’t laugh at first are the ones who look at the commander first to see if he’s laughing. At least I didn’t start with my Sumbitch fish joke, which is absolutely the funniest joke I know. It’s extra funny if you can do an impression of the Pope with an American southern accent.
This is the closest I can find to how I tell it, but I have to say, mine is far better, having refined it over the years. Substitute some of the characters for Sister Mary (who has given her heart to the Lord) Mother Superior, who is of course responsible for the spiritual well being of her nuns and is offended that the priest would use that kind of language in her presence…
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I’ll be happy to send the Power Point to anyone who asks. It only represents about 20% of what I actually say and demonstrate, but you’ll love some of the video clips I use.
In fact, during one iteration (out of four over the weekend) I even said, "I may or may not make heart breakers and life takers out of you all today, but at least you’re all going to learn how a F***** Power Point is supposed to be taught. I may very well have had my last NCOER in my career. Really, what are they gonna do? Fire me and find someone else to teach it?
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Death by PowerPoint, the US militaries greatest weapon since the late 90’s and replacing the old standard of drill by garrison troops of who is the best. 
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“During this block of instruction you will receive a demonstration, explanation, and practical application of…”
When I was in Drill Sergeant School every module we learned from the half page Position of Attention to the eleven page Stack and Take Arms was prefaced with that. After I graduated I never spoke those words again. When I taught something I usually prefaced it with “Stop playing grabass and gather round.”
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Lol… Not just your military Ryan … ours is equally as bad … PowerPoint just saps your will to live … I hate doing them… I normally end up doing a practical instead…
Rob, that Zvezda Pantsir is an early one, I only noticed while referencing online images the rear radar is the oblong sort which differs from the newer ones.
Does anyone do the tracked Pantsir ?
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Nearly 40 years later, that phrase is still burned into my brain… your own intro sounds a lot more like the stuff during refresher course of mobilization train up in 2004. Like doing Infantry OSUT all over again, but with lots of live ammo and none of the boot camp trainee BS….
True words.
The problem is, and has always been, that Powerpoint isn’t being used as it was intended in most cases.
Powerpoint was designed as an aid to presentation, not to BE the presentation. Unfortunately, its a boon for lazy instruction.
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Around here power point and it’s predecessor (the overhead projector)
used to be labelled ‘respirator’, artificial breathing for insecure presenters.
“Powerpoint was designed as an aid to presentation, not to BE the presentation.”
Yes indeed!
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Actually, i don’t think the good old OHP was that bad - because the presenter had to physically create the transparancies and that took time - so (in my case) were used spareingly!
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you never met my first platoon sargent!! He was a good man, but boy was he hard on you
gary
If you pull the trigger - you`re responsible - period !
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Ah, I go over that quite often. For all the shooters among us - Tap, Rack, and Shoot has been the immediate action on rifles and pistols for years now. Now it’s Tap, Rack, and Reassess.
If you practice this hundreds of times as I do, even with a dry, that muscle memory (no such thing!) sets in. So if your target disappears while you’re in the process of Tap and Rack and then you shoot, well you’ve just had yourself a negligent discharge. I’m cool with replacing shoot with reassess. I"m highly adaptable. 
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It was a warning shot 
Why the heck Baldwin asked the film director - instead of checking the ammo type himself is for a jury - it takes just seconds to check either a revolver or
pistol for the ammo type in use - either blank - or live rounds - even on a movie set - especially on a movie set - the same safety standards should apply as on a shooting range.
Nah, the warning shots are the one you shoot afterwards so that you have the correct number of spent shells …
Because movie people are stupid! And that is before you add in ego and other problems.
Ken
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everybody that had orders for the combat zone in my Basic Company had to go to the M16 orientation classes. Ok, but not great. We will shot six gazillion rounds at targets and such. In the full auto part we went thru several magazines in rapid fashion off bipods ! My rifle is just setting there minding it’s own business with a twenty round mag in it like everybody else. I’m maybe five feet away from it; when he cooks off a round, and then the rest of the mag! It was at least pointed down range. That’s when I learned the safe position on the selector didn’t mean squat. I knew I was headed at a rapid pace to the grease traps, but that never happened.
About a year later I’m training an FNG on how to load a howitzer without getting yourself or your hand smashed. The kid’s real nervous, and at least trying to be careful. We’re shooting max charges and walking our way thru the Sang Chang Valley north. We’re not in any serious hurry as it’s just H&I’s making somebody else feel good. We can see the flash of the exploding round in the early morning pitch darkness. Maybe one or two in the morning. The kid load, loads the powder, but forgets about the projectile going into the breech first. Yours truly should have caught it, but was watching the AG having trouble with his shoulder again. (about time for a beer break anyway). The kid on the field phone is from West Virginia, and maybe weighs 120 soaking wet… Randy fire the round and it’s like a forty foot diameter flash bulb at one in the morning. Flash is so bright that nobody can see a damned thing. The old guys are laughing, and the kid thinks he’s going to jail or something. The phone goes crazy! They ask Meeks what happened and Meeks told the the truth as he couldn’t see anything wrong. (we all were blinded). Randy and I pick up one round and go hide it because they’ll count the rounds the next morning as usual. Told the kid not to worry and get me a beer in the mean time! The plan was to get rid of the round during a zone sweep (we were shooting three or four a day). Instead of shooting nine rounds we’d simply shoot ten (we were that fast). It was like a drought, and we were not getting any zone sweeps! This went on for a couple weeks. I’m happy as I got a scared to death kid to go and fetch me a beer at my own beckoning.
Finally a zone sweep comes down, and we shoot ten rounds. After we’re done, Randy and I go and fetch the round off the roof top. Top comes thru the next morning and simply says I see you got rid of that extra round.
gary
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After nearly a two week hiatus I finally got back to the bench. Once the engine and chassis were done on the ICM Kamaz it went pretty quickly today. The cab went together surprisingly well, although it’s design was vastly differently then the Zvezda offering.
Detail is a little softer on the ICM kit, but most of it deals with the chassis and running gear. Ultimately, the parts you can see come out pretty equal is terms of detail.
I ordered a few sets of these 3D decals. Although they’re for the Zvezda kit I checked, and they’ll do for the ICM kit as well. The КАМАЗ decals are especially welcome, as the kits lack these.
Now just waiting for the MENG Pantsir to arrive and compare its cab to the other two.
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