At 10/7/09 05:55 PM, Chymeraxe wrote:
Hey guys, back with a few more questions.
I've pretty much made up my mind that I'm going army, preferably going to Rangers and hopefully (I stress that) getting into Delta. So I know that I'll be doing that once I get out of school.
Well you definitely set your goals high, and Delta can certainly go this the best of them, just remember to keep to your goals, and you eventually reach them.
I was just wondering, since this seems sort of related, if you guys knew of any gunsmithing schools anywhere, or if the Army could provide something like that for me. I'm becoming increasingly interested in building weapons and ammunition and have some ideas that I think would be good, but I can't find any reliable school or programs and there's a scarce amount of gunsmiths around here in Kansas.
The closest thing to gunsmithing I can think of is getting a job as an armorer. You repair and maintain all the guns and all related components in the armory. If your going to be a Ranger then move on up, you need to sign up as Infantry though. As far as information into being a gunsmith, I would contact the NRA, and maybe large gun manufactures like Smith & Wesson, Remington, Kimber, Colt, etc.
Sorry if this is a bad question, thank you for your time regardless.
On a side note, and I'm plugging the Marines here, you can sign up as an Armor in the Marine Corps then after your reach the rank of Corporal, you can apply to transfer to MARSOC, which is the Corps Special Forces, (Force Recon is advanced Infantry training whereas MARSOC is something completely different btw) but as with anything in the Marines, nothing is guaranteed. So if you happen to change your mind, be careful.