(magazines) are in the pouches attached to the pistol belt. Leave the clips in their pouches. 4.  When being relieved, a safe area for unloading a pistol must be established. In a safe area, remove the magazine from the pistol. With the weapon pointed in a safe direction (i.e., barrel full of sand), carefully jack the slide to the rear and remove the round from the chamber. Check the chamber, ensuring no rounds are present. Release the slide and let the hammer go home (weapons terminology for returning the hammer to the uncocked position). Dry fire the weapon and then engage the safety. CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH A WEAPON MAY BE FIRED Only  the CO can authorize the use of deadly force. (The term deadly force is defined as that force which, if used, has the potential to cause death or serious bodily harm.) The pistol or rifle should be used only as a last resort and then only under the following conditions: 1.  To protect your life or the life of another person where  no  other  means  of  defense  will  be effective in the particular situation 2.  When no other effective means is available to prevent the commission of or to prevent the escape of a person known to have committed robbery, murder, rape, arson, or kidnapping 3.  To prevent acts of sabotage, espionage, or other crimes against the government after failure of all other available means of preventing such crime LOOKOUTS You may wonder why visual lookouts are needed today when U.S. Navy radar and sonar are the best. Well, there are some objects radar can’t detect, and water conditions may severely limit the sonar detection range.  For  example,  you  might  be  able  to  see  a submarine’s periscope that’s beyond sonar detection range  and  whose  radar  indication  is  lost  in  the surrounding sea return echoes. Lookouts  are  important  members  of  the  ship’s operating team. As mentioned above, there are some objects radar can’t detect. Smoke, flares, swimmers, torpedo wakes, debris, low-flying aircraft, and life rafts are  either  impossible  or  very  difficult  to  detect. Sometimes, radar also indicates the presence of objects that actually are not there. A lookout may be able to verify the validity of a radar contact report and identify the objects detected. During conditions of electronic silence, lookouts are the only means of detection. The number of lookout stations varies according to the type of ship and whether it is peacetime or wartime. Naturally, large ships have more personnel available than  do  small  ships;  therefore,  they  can  man  more lookout stations. More lookouts are required in wartime than  in  peacetime.  When  enough  personnel  are available in peacetime, and always in wartime, three basic lookout searches are established. 1. Surface lookouts, who search from the ship to the horizon 2. Low sky lookouts, who search from the horizon to 5 degrees above it 3. High  sky  lookouts,  who  search  from  the horizon to the zenith (directly overhead) Additionally, several persons may be assigned to each  search,  each  person  being  responsible  for  a specified sector. Adjacent sectors have about 10 degrees overlap so that no area will be overlooked. The  normal  peacetime  lookout  organization  has three persons in each watch section. Two persons are located on the bridge or atop the pilothouse (for destroyer-type ships)—one searches to port, the other to starboard. Their sectors extend from just abaft the beam forward to dead ahead. The third person is stationed aft and is called the after lookout/life buoy watch. This sector extends from the starboard beam aft and around to the port beam. In addition to reporting all objects behind the ship, you would have the responsibility for promptly throwing overboard a life buoy if you see a person fall over the side, hear the cry “Man overboard,” or hear cries for help coming from the water. If you are the first to see the accident, you call, “Man overboard, (port/starboard) side.” You also relay reports made by others. 3-11 Student Notes: