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What amazes me more than anything are the comments about the 5.56 and the Car 15. How many BGs have to be KIAd before people will admit it works?
I was looking at the product literature for the XM8 - once again "One rifle - various configurations" That doesn't work, IMO. We need rifles, carbines, pistols, SAWs, SWS, all in the inventory. Mission oriented. The best rifle maker is not always going to make the best carbine, etc.
This multiple use thing is where we get in trouble. Remember the Gamma Goat? Wonder why the deuce and a half is still around? One function, move two and a half tons of shit from point A to point B. That's all it does.
It will be 30 years before we can pick up a 6.8 or 6.9 or whatever cartridge off the enemy KIA on the battlefield. SF guys will once again be training little people with weapons other than what they find downrange.
SOG probably killed more people with CAR 15s in Vietnam, People's Republic of, than the plague and clap put together in the history of mankind.
Solution to a problem that doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned.
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?
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