"gun play"?

[Dave Hause]

Alas!  What a change in drill instructors there must have been by 1965!  You
never heard, "This is my rifle, this is my gun..."?
Dave Hause, dwhause at jobe.net
Waynesville, MO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>

During my own blessedly-peaceful military career, I never came across
the the word "play" associated in any way with the word, "gun."

-Wilson

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