Ken,You got me remebering...we were told to shoot below the waist....it was on our post orders covered in combat acetate and they literally hung around our neck as I remember. Also the switch to nightsticks my actually have happened before I left. Some guy from Charlie or Alpha Co. 2/504 actually shot somebody and he ended up paralyzed(bullet through or near the spine-technically below the waist???) but survived the shooting. No charges were filed because it was a good shoot per our orders but it resulted in a policy change. When I left I think the only shotgun post we had was Division Finance...some people still got paid in cash after payday Formation.....explain that to the young'uns.
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Back to Civil Disturbance training, we used real CS during our training and would have used it in a real deployment to. I may be wrong but I don't think the Army can use CS anymore on regular civilians. We had a Ring Foil device for our M-16's also, never got to try it out on anybody.....but I wanted to I liked Riot Control training I made the suggestion that we should have an Expert Riot Control Badge as you can see this never happened along with a bunch of others...except one finally did make it 30 years later.
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