Sailors prepare for ground combat at Fort Jackson
Submitted by bhilferty on Sat, 11/14/2015 - 16:52
Lt. Cmdr. Michelle Sanabia hunkered down in a firing pit at Fort Jackson’s Bastogne gun range and kicked her boots up on the tripod of an imposing 50-caliber machine gun – a stalwart of the U.S. military since World War II.
Not many rounds hit their mark. But the slight, 53-year-old Navy emergency room nurse from Millington, Tenn., has had her first experience with an Army automatic weapon.
The training – which occurred in September – might be useful now that she has deployed to a NATO forward base hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan.