Public Worry Ends Ohio State ROTC Rifle Drills
The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Apr 18, 2008 11:38:42 EDT
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Public nervousness after the Virginia Tech shootings has led the Ohio State University ROTC program to stop its outdoor training with fake rifles.
Navy Capt. Steven Noce leads the program and says police have received a few calls of concern in the past year after people saw the cadets training for combat with their mock M-16s.
It was a year ago this week that a gunman killed 32 people at Virginia Tech.
At first, ROTC officials thought that switching from black rubber rifles to ones colored blue or orange would solve the problem, but Noce says some passers-by still got scared.
The drills are typically conducted around the ROTC building near Ohio Stadium. For now, they’ve been moved indoors, or cadets are training without the rifles.
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OK, now I’m not the sharpest knife in the draw, but how in the hell……. do you train for a rifle drill….. without the rifle?……
April 20th, 2008 at 12:06 amPublic worry, fake rifles? Yeah I bet it was. Sounds like lefty loons at the school to me.
April 20th, 2008 at 12:18 amThe premise for this happening is so absurd I have no words.
April 20th, 2008 at 12:34 amThere is a big difference between a lone nut job and a trained soldier-can’t they see that?
April 20th, 2008 at 2:27 am“A few calls of concern…”
Really?
People call the cops to ask how long to cook their freakin’ turkeys for God’s sake. If you keep catering to this kind of nonsense, it will keep on happening. Next it will be their uniforms.
We’re not going to change the ever-worried few. We need to ignore them, and be the adults, here Ohio State ROTC.
April 20th, 2008 at 4:20 amMindy-
April 20th, 2008 at 4:24 amThe answer to your rhetorical question is…a lone nut job and a trained soldier are the same in their eyes.
just an idea- how about giving the rotc real rifles and real ammo and let them provide security.the gutless swine that carry out attacks like va. tech don’t go where somebody can shoot back! (fucking morons.)
April 20th, 2008 at 4:39 amfirst a mosque near colombus celebrates the anniversary of the bombing in beirut and gets away with it, yet Ohio State ROTC cant do rifle drills.
WTF?? Ohio!
ill continue rifle drills in my backyard, well actually target practice
April 20th, 2008 at 5:12 amWell the people who think this is a good idea are the same ones who don’t realize that gun free zone = target rich environment to the homicidal maniacs.
I wonder if towards the end Romans were complaining about the legion training with swords.
April 20th, 2008 at 6:08 amTin soldiers and code pinks coming…
April 20th, 2008 at 6:44 amWhy are they even worried about the delicate sensitivities of passers-by?
April 20th, 2008 at 7:17 amgo buckeyes….but seriously, what the hell.
April 20th, 2008 at 7:27 amMaybe they can use majorette batons … huh?
That is, until some fuck-wad decides to go ape-shit on campus with a majorette’s baton and bust a few skulls …
Then those are banned too.
Oh, when will the shit-for-brains mentality end??
Where’d I put my fucking duct tape.
April 20th, 2008 at 12:07 pmYeah let’s disarm a Military organization. That makes all the sense in the world. When did American citizens become such whiny wimps?? This is shameful!!
April 20th, 2008 at 12:34 pmThis isn’t the first time something like this happened. I was in NJROTC when the columbine school shooting happened and we were actually told to stop wearing our Navy style all weather trench coats because they resembled the ones the shooters at columbine wore, and we had to walk around the outside of the school instead of through it with our M1 drill rifles to get to our drill field. I’m not saying it makes any sense, but people certainly get panicky and start making rules based on emotions.
April 20th, 2008 at 12:52 pmHow in the fook can anyone link a looney tunes like the Va Tech gunman to ROTC? Are these people that stupid? Maybe so. And that they have an agenda.
Maybe if they put the ROTC cadets in dresses and gave them pink rifles (fake), they liberal nut cases at the university would feel more at ease.
That is what they want. De-ball every alpha male and turn them all into sissy Marys where only Feminazis rule the roost.
C’mon Ohio voters. Kick these idiots in their collective leftist asses.
Guess colleges are only giving out degrees in “how to be really stupid” anymore huh?
April 20th, 2008 at 12:57 pm