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Originally Posted by worth
That's what I would guess as well, although I'm not an expert.
All I know is I did it a few times in the field in Wainwright during basic training. Someone would lose the firing pin out of their rifle while doing a weapon tear down in the field. They'd stop the whole platoon, make us put our gas masks on, and crawl us the prone position for what seemed like a couple of hours going over the same area looking for the stupid thing. And of course, someone found the pin in the first 5 minutes of searching and gave it to our Platoon Seargent, but they would just make us crawl around for fun in 30 degree weather with masks on looking for nothing.
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Let me guess, you came in after the FN C1 A1 generation.
But yeah, I remember activities like that with less then fondness.
I remember in my last year a little girl vanished in Banff, and our unit was just finishing up a mountain comms excercise, and they pulled us in to see if we could help find her, and we had to do that walk through every muck filled misquito ridden field in Banff.
It would take over an hour to go half the length of a football field, shuffling along while staring just ahead of your feet.