Bang, Bang!

In the face of a declining military budget, the Defense Ministry of the Netherlands issued confidential instructions to commanders in July that during training exercises, to preserve dwindling ammunition, soldiers should simply shout “Bang Bang” instead of firing their weapons. Said a soldiers’ advocate, “Even if you have no bullets, you [still] have to train with your weapon.”

Source: Reuters via RT.com (Moscow), 8-3-2015

Damien's note: Whereas in the good old US of A, armed civilians have been showing up at military recruiting offices armed to the teeth. You know, to prevent crazy people with guns from shooting up the military. 

Cher's hit song, by the way, was released in 1966. It was one of her biggest hits of the decade. Ironically, all things considered, it was written by then-husband Sonny Bono, whom she divorced in 1975, not shooting him down so much as freeing him up for a political career.