PMI

PMI

PMI stands for Pre Marksmanship Instruction. It’s what the military’s equivalent of class work for an upcoming weapon’s qualification. Soldiers go over the basics, like breaking down their weapon, how to load it (and load it safely), draw it, shoot it, and clear it. Today we focused on our pistols. Our team is fortunate enough to have a senior police officer and two US Marshals in its ranks who all add valuable input to the instruction that we receive from the regular cadre. Today, after our round-robin events, we did some transition drills with our pistols and rifles which is similar training that the SWAT folks get. Again, very good training for the type of environment we’ll be going to, even if most of us will be staff weenies in theater.

The green plastic army man in the middle of this picture is what we commonly call “Ivan” in the military circles. It’s a throw back to the cold war days when the targets we shot at resembled our then Russian enemy. Today it was a training aid to help us focus on our sight pictures. The guy on the right is Brendan, a fellow Captain on my team with about the same amount of reserve experience as me (none) and the guy on the left acting like an OG (original gangster) is me, just in case the sunglasses fooled you by hiding my slanted eyes.