gadgetguy1288
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Sig P229R? I'm going into the Coast Guard soon and have learned that this is the gun you are issued, any info would be nice
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Perldog007
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You have got to be kidding me. Better join the Navy. They used to have Colt .22 Aces in recruit training, Old OD green painted 1911s' and really really old model 10s.
Of course most of us never touched them. Listen up youngblood, here is how you fight to win.
You go down to your shop after a nice breakfast like you can only get on a Nuclear Super Carrier. You fix some critical piece of gear needed for some critical mission. You send it back up the line after you do the paper work.
Then you go back to the chow hall and get some cheeseburgers in the slider line. Then you sign out to your rack and take a nap while you think good thoughts for the Officers who are nice enough to get in the Aircraft and do the fighting for you.
Makes it a lot easier to really respect those Officers. That's how you fight smart.
If you want to get out there in the shallows and mix it up with dope dealers and small boat terrorists, all I can do for you is have some dinner, take a nap and send good thoughts your way...
Seriously, Sig pistols have a fine reputation for accuracy and reliability. The Coast Guard is a proud and honorable profession and it's good to hear that they are equipping you with top notch tools.
I know a retired Coast Guard sailor or two. Good folks. I imagine that your instructors will teach you what you need to know about the sidearm.
God Bless you for serving, be safe and make time to post up and tell us what you think of that sidearm after you have handled it. I have no personal experience with any Sig other than rentals and borrowing a lane for a mag now and then. The people I know who have them swear by them.
Of course most of us never touched them. Listen up youngblood, here is how you fight to win.
You go down to your shop after a nice breakfast like you can only get on a Nuclear Super Carrier. You fix some critical piece of gear needed for some critical mission. You send it back up the line after you do the paper work.
Then you go back to the chow hall and get some cheeseburgers in the slider line. Then you sign out to your rack and take a nap while you think good thoughts for the Officers who are nice enough to get in the Aircraft and do the fighting for you.
Makes it a lot easier to really respect those Officers. That's how you fight smart.
If you want to get out there in the shallows and mix it up with dope dealers and small boat terrorists, all I can do for you is have some dinner, take a nap and send good thoughts your way...
Seriously, Sig pistols have a fine reputation for accuracy and reliability. The Coast Guard is a proud and honorable profession and it's good to hear that they are equipping you with top notch tools.
I know a retired Coast Guard sailor or two. Good folks. I imagine that your instructors will teach you what you need to know about the sidearm.
God Bless you for serving, be safe and make time to post up and tell us what you think of that sidearm after you have handled it. I have no personal experience with any Sig other than rentals and borrowing a lane for a mag now and then. The people I know who have them swear by them.
Good luck in your career .......I hope they treat you well.
I think you'll like the Sig ( but there are still some Coast Guard units out there in the fleet with some Berettas and some of the old Colt 1911's as well ). I think you'll find most of the Sigs are issued to boat crews assigned to specific port security missions - but not throughout the whole fleet.
I think you'll like the Sig ( but there are still some Coast Guard units out there in the fleet with some Berettas and some of the old Colt 1911's as well ). I think you'll find most of the Sigs are issued to boat crews assigned to specific port security missions - but not throughout the whole fleet.
Playboypenguin
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Congrats on the new career and you are lucky to be issued such a fine gun. I just dumped a ton of money on a Sig P229 Elite.
Maybe I should have just joined the coast Guard instead and received one for free. I get sea sick in a bathtub and can't really swim that well. I hope that would not be a problem.
Maybe I should have just joined the coast Guard instead and received one for free. I get sea sick in a bathtub and can't really swim that well. I hope that would not be a problem.
Nice one PBP!
If I was tough enough to pass the training, I would be a Navy SEAL just to handle and shoot all the bada** weapons they have. I would be in heaven! My very own Hk Mk23 Socom!!
But, back to reality. I have seen the training they go through and there is no way I'd make it.gadgetguy1288, congrats. Any Sig is a nice gun. Hopefully you'll be able fire the Ma Duece at some drug runners. Good luck.
Perldog007
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No problem at all. If you can't swim at all when you join your patient understanding recruit training instructors will "help" you with a level of compassion you can only find in a recruit training setting.
Seasickness is no problem as long as you hang onto the leeward rail when you actually experience a "reversal".
And for crying out loud, isn't a little choking on chlorinated/salt water and a few dry heaves worth being issued a Sig?
They try to kill Marine recruits and they are lucky to get a 92.
XNavyflyer
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I don't mean to hijack this thread but I couldnt help thinking of this when I read Perldog's post...the good old days! Sorry about the length of this but I thought it was hilarious.
HOW TO SIMULATE BEING A SAILOR
1. Buy a steel dumpster, paint it gray inside and out, and live in it for sixmonths.
2. Run all the pipes and wires in your house exposed on the walls.
3. Repaint your entire house every month.
4. Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of the Bathtub and move the shower head to chest level. When you take showers, make sure you turn off the water while you soap down.
5. Put lube oil in your humidifier and set it on high.
6. Once a week, blow compressed air up your chimney, making sure the wind carries the soot onto your neighbor's house.Ignore his complaints.
7. Once a month, take all major appliances apart and then reassemble them.
8. Raise the thresholds and lower the headers of your front and back doors so that you either trip or bang your head every time you pass through them.
9. Disassemble and inspect your lawnmower every week.
10. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, turn your water heater temperature up to 200 degrees. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, turn the water heater off. On Saturdays and Sundays tell your family they used too much water during the week, so no bathing will be allowed.
11. Raise your bed to within 6 inches of the ceiling, so you can't turn over without getting out and then getting back in.
12. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a curtain. Have your spouse whip open the curtain about 3 hours after you go to sleep, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and say "Sorry, wrong rack."
13. Make your family qualify to operate each appliance in your house - dishwasher operator, blender technician, etc.
14. Have your neighbor come over each day at 5 am, blow a whistle so loud Helen Keller could hear it, and shout, "Reveille!"
15. Have your mother-in-law write down everything she's going to do the following day, then have her make you stand in your back yard at 6 am while she reads it to you.
16. Submit a request chit to your father-in-law requesting permission to leave your house before 3 PM.
17. Empty all the garbage bins in your house and sweep the driveway three times a day, whether it needs it or not.
18. Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a month, read your magazines, and randomly lose every 5th item before delivering it to you.
19. Watch no TV except for movies played in the middle of the night. Have your family vote on which movie to watch, and then show a different one.
20. When your children are in bed, run into their room with a megaphone shouting that your home is under attack and ordering them to their battle stations.
21. Make your family menu a week ahead of time without consulting the pantry or refrigerator.
22. Post a menu on the kitchen door informing your family that they are having steak for dinner. Then make them wait in line for an hour. When they finally get to the kitchen, tell them you are out of steak, but they can have dried ham or hot dogs. Repeat daily until they ignore the menu and just ask for hot dogs.
23. Bake a cake. Prop up one side of the pan so the cake bakes unevenly. Spread icing real thick to level it off.
24. Get up every night around midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread.
25. Set your alarm clock to go off at random during the night. At the alarm, jump up and dress as fast as you can, making sure to button your top shirt button and tuck your pants into your socks. Run out into the backyard and uncoil the garden hose.
26. Every week or so, throw your cat or dog in the pool and shout, "Man overboard port side!" Rate your family members on how fast they respond.
27. Put the headphones from your stereo on your head, but don't plug them in. Hang a paper cup around your neck on a string. Stand in front of the stove, and speak into the paper cup"Stove manned and ready." After an hour or so, speak into the cup again 'Stove secured." Roll up the headphones and paper cup and stow them in a shoebox.
28. Place a podium at the end of your driveway. Have your family stand watches at the podium, rotating at 4-hour intervals. This is best done when the weather is worst. January is a good time.
29. When there is a thunderstorm in your area, get a wobbly rocking chair, Sit in it and rock as hard as you can until you become nauseous. Make sure to have a supply of stale crackers in your shirt pocket.
30. For former engineers: bring your lawn mower into the living room, and run it all day long.
31. Make coffee using eighteen scoops of budget priced coffee grounds per pot, and allow the pot to simmer for 5 hours before drinking.
32. Have someone under the age of ten give you a haircut with sheep shears.
33. Sew the back pockets of your jeans on the front.
34. Every couple of weeks, dress up in your best clothes and go to the scummiest part of town. Find the most run down, trashiest bar, and drink beer until you are hammered. Then walk all the way home.
35 . Lock yourself and your family in the house for six weeks. Tell them that at the end of the 6th week you are going to take them to Disney World for "liberty." At the end of the 6th week, inform them the trip to Disney World has been canceled because they need to get ready for an inspection, and it will be another week before they can leave the house.
HOW TO SIMULATE BEING A SAILOR
1. Buy a steel dumpster, paint it gray inside and out, and live in it for sixmonths.
2. Run all the pipes and wires in your house exposed on the walls.
3. Repaint your entire house every month.
4. Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of the Bathtub and move the shower head to chest level. When you take showers, make sure you turn off the water while you soap down.
5. Put lube oil in your humidifier and set it on high.
6. Once a week, blow compressed air up your chimney, making sure the wind carries the soot onto your neighbor's house.Ignore his complaints.
7. Once a month, take all major appliances apart and then reassemble them.
8. Raise the thresholds and lower the headers of your front and back doors so that you either trip or bang your head every time you pass through them.
9. Disassemble and inspect your lawnmower every week.
10. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, turn your water heater temperature up to 200 degrees. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, turn the water heater off. On Saturdays and Sundays tell your family they used too much water during the week, so no bathing will be allowed.
11. Raise your bed to within 6 inches of the ceiling, so you can't turn over without getting out and then getting back in.
12. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a curtain. Have your spouse whip open the curtain about 3 hours after you go to sleep, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and say "Sorry, wrong rack."
13. Make your family qualify to operate each appliance in your house - dishwasher operator, blender technician, etc.
14. Have your neighbor come over each day at 5 am, blow a whistle so loud Helen Keller could hear it, and shout, "Reveille!"
15. Have your mother-in-law write down everything she's going to do the following day, then have her make you stand in your back yard at 6 am while she reads it to you.
16. Submit a request chit to your father-in-law requesting permission to leave your house before 3 PM.
17. Empty all the garbage bins in your house and sweep the driveway three times a day, whether it needs it or not.
18. Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a month, read your magazines, and randomly lose every 5th item before delivering it to you.
19. Watch no TV except for movies played in the middle of the night. Have your family vote on which movie to watch, and then show a different one.
20. When your children are in bed, run into their room with a megaphone shouting that your home is under attack and ordering them to their battle stations.
21. Make your family menu a week ahead of time without consulting the pantry or refrigerator.
22. Post a menu on the kitchen door informing your family that they are having steak for dinner. Then make them wait in line for an hour. When they finally get to the kitchen, tell them you are out of steak, but they can have dried ham or hot dogs. Repeat daily until they ignore the menu and just ask for hot dogs.
23. Bake a cake. Prop up one side of the pan so the cake bakes unevenly. Spread icing real thick to level it off.
24. Get up every night around midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread.
25. Set your alarm clock to go off at random during the night. At the alarm, jump up and dress as fast as you can, making sure to button your top shirt button and tuck your pants into your socks. Run out into the backyard and uncoil the garden hose.
26. Every week or so, throw your cat or dog in the pool and shout, "Man overboard port side!" Rate your family members on how fast they respond.
27. Put the headphones from your stereo on your head, but don't plug them in. Hang a paper cup around your neck on a string. Stand in front of the stove, and speak into the paper cup"Stove manned and ready." After an hour or so, speak into the cup again 'Stove secured." Roll up the headphones and paper cup and stow them in a shoebox.
28. Place a podium at the end of your driveway. Have your family stand watches at the podium, rotating at 4-hour intervals. This is best done when the weather is worst. January is a good time.
29. When there is a thunderstorm in your area, get a wobbly rocking chair, Sit in it and rock as hard as you can until you become nauseous. Make sure to have a supply of stale crackers in your shirt pocket.
30. For former engineers: bring your lawn mower into the living room, and run it all day long.
31. Make coffee using eighteen scoops of budget priced coffee grounds per pot, and allow the pot to simmer for 5 hours before drinking.
32. Have someone under the age of ten give you a haircut with sheep shears.
33. Sew the back pockets of your jeans on the front.
34. Every couple of weeks, dress up in your best clothes and go to the scummiest part of town. Find the most run down, trashiest bar, and drink beer until you are hammered. Then walk all the way home.
35 . Lock yourself and your family in the house for six weeks. Tell them that at the end of the 6th week you are going to take them to Disney World for "liberty." At the end of the 6th week, inform them the trip to Disney World has been canceled because they need to get ready for an inspection, and it will be another week before they can leave the house.