In his defense, he's actually not a rookie. This is his third deployment, he's an experienced carrier and shooter. He is the one guy in the platoon I didn't need to train from the ground up on how to use a pistol. He's an experimenter. He's always trying different ways to do things. The guys make fun of me because I still use an old M-12 holster with a leg extension and a thumb break. (When I'm not using an old black leather chest holster I got issued in 1992 when I was a tanker with 3rd ID.) And a lanyard. I counseled all of my soldiers in writing that they will have lanyards on their pistols at all times.
I think now he's using a Fobus OWB most of the time.