Shoulda used a flashlight

This is a picture of the night fire qualification range. The red lines are tracer rounds from our M-16's. There was also a big storm off in the distance and you can see the lightning on the horizon. To qualify at this range a firer had to hit the target (marked by the blue light in the middle of the range) 7 times out of 30. Because we had already qualified with our weapons that day, I wasn't worried about the night fire. To be honest, it was so dark I couldn't see a damn thing anyway. We were told to fire in two man teams, so my squad leader and I decided to team up. I told him ahead of time that I was just going to fire off my rounds quickly and then take some pictures of him shooting so that he could email them to his wife. He seemed cool with the plan. When we were instructed to fire, I pointed my weapon in the general direction of the blue light and let loose. When my mag was empty (in about 10 seconds) I started snapping shots, knowing for certain that I never actually hit the target.
Later, when the instructors were reading off our scores they announced that we were actually being judged by our total two man score. As a team we had to hit the darn thing 14 times. Alas, our combined score was 13. Yep, that's squad leader 13, Joey zero. Oops. He was not a happy man. I think I laughed for a good half hour straight. The worst part was, all of the pictures I took sucked.