• borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    It’s not about keeping them at a certain manual of arms positions to the point it ties them out though. It’s about muscle memory. There’s anywhere from two to four fingers of the right hand on the rifle, with one guy doing a literal finger gun. I’m not measuring each pixel to make sure the hand placement is exact here, just like have roughly the same grip ffs. Also on dude has clamped his hand over the gas tube. Remember what I said about muscle memory? He’s gonna wind up having a bad fucking time when he actually puts rounds though that gun.

    Anecdotally, my experience was that not being at 100% all the time meant friends dying.

    • Mathazzar@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I too was infantry. And muscle memory doesn’t necessarily mean always being engaged to the process, it means being able to return to the necessary posture when needed.

      It wasn’t uncommon for us to rest our hands on our rifles too when we didn’t need to be actively engaged in the current situation in any hostile fashion.