This is My Rifle, This is My 'Gun'

What does It mean to use your Gun for training and not for fun?

Well, you know how during training exercises you don't use real rounds and your weapon has a blank adapter on it? Meaning....you still practice......the weapon is being used to almost its full capacity, just nothing comes out. The energy stays inside the Gun.....nothing comes out.....you still do all the normal stuff, you just don't do it completely. Are we all tracking on this?

Now why in the heck would I be encouraging you to practice using your Gun in this fashion.....because I want you to start developing good sustainable habits and I need your basic posture to be one of them.

I know smbrs had access to shit Goads of DTD down range and chances are you still got it, or you access it on the Internet during down time now.........so if I can get you paying attn to your posture on a regular basis and get you to be more disciplined about sending your focus and energy somewhere other than the trash-can or a sock, then we are all making progress.

This weeks practical is all about the hips. I showed you how to clean your shoulders, now I'm tying that practice together with something I'm pretty sure you do regularly.

I can just image you reading this.....when it dawns on you what I'm recommending you do you are gonna think I've lost my shit. Not a problem, HOOAH?

Just know that I practiced this same discipline down range for an entire year. That's right, not once while I was down range did I ever use my gun to completion. Not once!

When I first got home I had the same Down Time habits I had down range, only I completed the process. It took me a while to realize that DTD was screwing up my progress and influencing my understanding of intimacy in an unsustainable way......whether I completed the process or not..........but we will get to that later.

Know this.....in time you are going to have to train yourself away from your Down Time Documents...but in the mean time you might as well further the process of Armoring Down by optimizing something that you look forward to and enjoy doing.

Down Time in the Digital Age.

If you have seen any older war movies, most will have a scene or two were smbrs, during down time, will exchange stories and pictures about their past lives or future aspirations. In the movie HAMBURGER HILL, one of the soldiers passes around a picture of his girl back home. In the movie FORREST GUMP a bunkmate throws GUMP a particular type of magazine after lights out. Well the digital age has had an influence on this pretty standard war time experience.

A civilian will be hard pressed to understand the significance of digital forms of media down range. On today's battlefields and forward operating bases, instead of sharing a single photo, or magazine....which is still done.....smbrs can exchange entire 20-500gigabitts hard drives with each other in as long as it takes to smoke a cigarette.

Now what kind of exchanges do you imagine taking place btw a fair percentage of smbrs, especially those of the male persuasion?

I remember the first time I went to hang out with the guys from the Battery we were attached to and the first thing that we did was exchange Down Time Documents. Exchanging DTD was so easy, you just connected hard drives via a laptop pressed copy and poof, everything you had is shared and visa versa. Thousands of images and video shared in minutes. It was a great way to 'share the wealth' so to speak. I'll never forget asking a smbr who came through our base on his way to another if he had any DTD.

Hell yeah he did, 150gigs, the mother goad.

What made surfing through DTD so enjoyable was your control over it and it's ability to take you from a shitty place to a more enjoyable one. In this other place you had control over your enjoyment and for at-least a few minutes were outside the war.

Hahaha, remember this creed from FULL METAL JACKET?

This is my rifle......this is my gun....this is for fighting.........this is for fun.

Well smbrs, your not going to like this and forgive me females but this is directed at the guys.....as a civilian now you have to switch this understanding around and start treating your 'gun' as a training tool, not as something used for fun.

Tomorrows' post will explain how.