The Tarnished Shooter by Charles James

Author:Charles James [James, Charles]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2013-11-30T05:00:00+00:00

While I waited for orders to go through the class again, I was made an assistant to the platoon sergeant for the barracks of the school. One of my duties was to fill the guard roster with names for daily and weekend guard duty. Guard duty was four hours on and eight hours off during the weekends. It was a job that required a Marine to walk around a designated area with a rifle, a shotgun, or a forty-five caliber pistol. I guarded all kinds of shit when I was on guard duty. Once I guarded an ammo dump from a platform two stories up with a huge spot light. It was spooky to be there alone at night, even with a weapon; many times I thought I saw things as I fought to stay awake. Another time I guarded a mess of amphibious troop carriers, called Amtracs, at a small guard shack, with a forty-five caliber pistol strapped to my side. It was fun walking around with that pistol. “Go ahead, make my day!”

The officer of the day on guard duty tried to sneak up on us and catch us sleeping. If we got caught sleeping, it would have been grounds for a court martial. The thing is, we never really knew if the weapons we had would actually fire. We were given five live-rounds of ammunition for defending ourselves, or others in case of an assault. But everything was a court martial offence and half the time we never knew what the fuck to do.

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