Not even close. In the Marine Corps, we qualified at 500yds with effectively the same rifle using iron sights

I do too.

It’s absolutely inconceivable to me that USSS let a shooter get that close, that anyone could miss that shot, and that Trump would do anything but shit his pants and immediately save his own skin when faced with an actual threat

When you don’t have a bunch of incompetent fuck sticks at the top jerking everything around to stroke their egos, US military logistics systems are miraculous.

No, everybody got it. Back when I was in, everybody knew that a fancy dinner meant deployment, extended deployment, or delayed or canceled leave.

Not really bagging on you, but that’s definitely weird

Us and the Soviets

But only after the other European allies paid the price in blood to hold them for as long as possible.

If you’re really surprised, you haven’t been paying attention to the last several centuries of human history…