You learn something new everyday. WWII shooting classes:)

[internet troll]

#5. World War II High School Girls Learned to Sharpshoot

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What the hell, why did no one tell us there was a 1940s version of Red Dawn? That's not a movie still: It's an actual picture from back when "learning how to shoot down Nazis with a rifle" was seriously part of the school curriculum. And no, we don't mean pixelated Wolfenstein 3D Nazis like the ones you spent hours killing in high school -- we mean actual flesh and bone ones.

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The Shoot-Hitler-in-the-Goddamn-Face team was a popular after-school activity.

You see, during World War II, the U.S. government didn't want a buncha flabby teens growing into flabby adults and joining up to fight Hitler, so in 1942 they established the Victory Corps in high schools around the country. Kids who joined the Victory Corps took a physical fitness class and volunteered in a wartime activity like collecting scrap metal (which the government pretended was to make tanks or whatever) or being instructed in how to save lives ... and how to end them. More specifically, with shooting.

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The hall monitor who walked around that corner never stopped shitting himself.

Yep, when they weren't doing jumping jacks and collecting tin foil, Victory Corps teens took a "war effort" class, like first aid or sharpshooting, which led to awesome clubs like the Roosevelt High Girls' Rifle Team. And, really, if you were a high school girl, what would you rather do: take a class in putting on bandages, or wield an M1903 Springfield? The latter, obvs.

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"This may be a bad time to tell you this, but I made out with your boyfriend at the drive-in Saturday night.

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[justashooter]

sounds like a good movie plot. all the guys gone to war, and women practicing sharpshooting. then the zombies land in spaceships and attack lots of showering hotties and dorm room lesbians in pleated plaid micro miniskirts, who have to fight their way to the last guy in America, me, a slightly wounded guy that has to satisfy them all before dying of exhaustion...when do we roll film?

[Hawk]

The shame of it all is that generation is all but gone. How I wish we could return to the days where moral fiber was common place.

In nature, living things naturally get stronger with each generation or they perish from the Earth, forever! Mankind is not getting stronger, it's getting weaker with each new generation. Unless we turn it around, we too shall perish from the Earth.