{"id":6847,"date":"2014-03-19T12:12:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T19:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/?p=6847"},"modified":"2013-12-04T12:13:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T19:13:08","slug":"front-sight-mail-bag-wondered-much-past-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2014\/03\/19\/front-sight-mail-bag-wondered-much-past-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Sight Mail Bag: Wondered Because of So Much Past Training&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza,<\/p>\n<p>I actually went there wondering what I would get.\u00a0 I have had quite a bit of past training plus combat experience in Vietnam I brought a 9mm which I am selling and thus didn\u2019t bring my top holster and ammo pouch equipment.\u00a0 I wanted to burn up 9mm\u2019s.\u00a0 In my mind I was a bit embarrassed because I did not bring my best equipment.\u00a0Everything about Front Sight is the best, so I should have been equipped at that level.\u00a0 As it was, I graduated 2 points below Distinguished Graduate (DG).\u00a0 I did get one of your challenge coins as \u201cTop Dog\u201d shooter, but knew I could have been the second DG.\u00a0 There was only one in the class, so I now realize you are serious about graduation certificates, too.\u00a0 You are doing it right, and I hope you are able to keep that level in the future!<\/p>\n<p>Roger K<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza, I actually went there wondering what I would get.\u00a0 I have had quite a bit of past training plus combat experience in Vietnam I brought a 9mm which I am selling and thus didn\u2019t bring my top holster and ammo pouch equipment.\u00a0 I wanted to burn up 9mm\u2019s.\u00a0 In my mind I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[4781],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6848,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847\/revisions\/6848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}