FLAvalanche
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It depends on your assignments in the Navy.
The Navy can be the worst when it comes to weapons/marksmanship. Usually on our deployments, which were always on a Naval Amphibious ship, usually an LSD, we had firearms training days.
Everyone would bring their guns to the flight deck and we would cross train. We'd even take one of our AAVs up there and let the Navy and the grunts shoot the guns in our turret. Grunts brought out their toys. The Navy brought out the single and coax .50 cals on the mounts around the flight deck. Even the CIWS got some exercise.
What always suprised us what that us Amtracers, because of our infinite knowledge on the .50 cal, always had to train the navy gunners how to mount, head space, time, clean, maintain and fire their .50 cals. They simply never did it.
I've been on 5 different LSDs where we had range days and it was always the same. The Navy personnel just didn't use their guns enough to retain the knowledge. It was sad.