they'll try anything but give the shooting range types lots of ammo and time to perfect their aim... on moving targets. I'm just saying, the army would be better off allowing more soldiers to achieve sharpshooter status. How's that a bad idea?

and that right there is the difference between journalism, and blogging.

Journalists only tell you the news, I tell you what I figure makes sense

The US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), is developing a cybernetic prairie predator to keep airfields clear of hazardous wildlife.

I think all us vets are familiar with wasting a budget to make sure you get the same budget next year. 

In addition to birds, other wildlife like rabbits and deer can wander onto runways or damage equipment by foraging, burrowing, nesting, or relieving themselves. To prevent this, airfield operators have employed all sorts of countermeasures, including aerial drones, hawks, falcons, dogs, lights, and even gas-operated cannons to scare fauna away.

See? Like I said, get them soldiers out there with loads of ammo, sniper scopes, spotters, and all that stuff... get some ammo flying downrange! 

The result of five years of development, the Coyote Rovers, as they are officially called, began life as a Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped robot, but this turned out to be too slow to intimidate the local wildlife, so they were replaced with four-wheeled Traxxas X-Maxx motorized cars capable of reaching 20 mph (32 km/h). Adding plastic coyote dummies to ride on the platforms provided them with the right balance of cute and alarming at a total cost of about US$3,000 each.

The robo-coyotes have been tested at a number of military airfields, including Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, famous as the home of the Blue Angels aerobatics team, Fort Campbell, Tennessee, and Naval Air Station Whiting Field, Florida.

https://newatlas.com/military/robot-coyotes-protect-airfields-adorable-cyber-ferocity/

Good ideas like mine (Navy vet) are why the Navy kicks the Army's ass at the 63-55 -7 all time record of wins where the Navy is 8 games up. It's just the facts folks.