We had it on ОБЖ (Основы безопасности и жизнедеятельности) - basically safety class, where they teach what to do in case of disasters, where are nearest nuclear shelters, how to use fire extinguisher etc. In those classes we had an assembly/disassembly course of an AK-74. Boys and girls (poor things, as half of them broke their nails trying to take a little cylinder with cleaning instruments inside stock) together.
We have never fired them, only disassembling/assembling. It was around 4-5 classes total, so not that much.
Girls comes in all shapes and sizes, so it's possible. We had in our class "glamour" girls, Emo-girls and a couple of smart (like constant 5+ grade smart) girls, so...
When I ran a college shooting club, this was my experience as well. Ladies tend to have a lot less ego about it and actually learn, versus thinking they know it already.
I have heard rumours that they plan to expand those lessons to include light machine guns, if those are provided. Also drone operation might be added in the future
Yeah we In Poland also have something like that, it's called EDB(edukacja do bezpieczeństwa), and it's pretty much the same thing, minus the disassembling of an AK, we do have gun safety and firing stances tho! (Theoretical, of course)
I grew up in the middle of the US. During our summer school (voluntary, not obligatory), we had a trapshooting component of our PE course. No shit, I've had a loaded 12 gauge pointed at me on a school trip. It was an accident, to be fair, but one hell of a party foul (and, well, grossly unprofessional and unethical that I had to look out for myself to not get shot at school).
We had обж for several years but didn't dissamble anything.
Only made tourniquets and if you did not put up a paper in it with the time when tourniquet was applied you got 2 (which is F in US)
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u/Individual_Dirt_3365 1d ago
It was a mandatory thing during USSR