07-31-2005, 16:42
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Do you not have an M-4 of your own to have and hold, feed and care for?
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Nope. Not in-the-flesh. I thought the mags were straight from movies and TV, and that the curved ones were old fashioned types.
I had an amazing AR-15 but it was stolen when I moved.
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07-31-2005, 16:46
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Nice pics
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07-31-2005, 17:13
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Nope. Not in-the-flesh. I thought the mags were straight from movies and TV, and that the curved ones were old fashioned types.
I had an amazing AR-15 but it was stolen when I moved.
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You had an AR-15, but did not know that the mags were curved?
There has got to be something wrong here.
TR
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07-31-2005, 17:17
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Yep.
Past tense .
I don't remember if I ever shot it or not. I first wanted to learn about the HK .223.
And then, it was gone.
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07-31-2005, 17:19
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You had an AR-15, but did not know that the mags were curved?
There has got to be something wrong here.
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Perhaps she had difficulty lifting a 30-round mag, and went with 10? 
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07-31-2005, 17:29
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Yep.
Past tense  .
I don't remember if I ever shot it or not. I first wanted to learn about the HK .223.
And then, it was gone.
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Interesting concept, owning guns that you have never fired.
Good point, RL, she may have had to use 5 rounders.
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07-31-2005, 17:35
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Interesting concept, owning guns that you have never fired.
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I did shoot someone else's AR-15. It felt so good and light I had to get one. Then I moved and poof. (That and a used .22 rifle of some kind that I also had never fired was taken. But not my HK .223.)
Those were strange days. I was trying lots of guns and going to a bazillion classes and was drop-dead serious about everything.
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07-31-2005, 21:56
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On the gun that he's holding, what is just forward of the scope?
TR, that gun doesn't look anything like my AR did. It doesn't have the distinctive _____ towards the front. (I'll remember the name in a minute...)
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07-31-2005, 22:12
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On the gun that he's holding, what is just forward of the scope?
TR, that gun doesn't look anything like my AR did. It doesn't have the distinctive _____ towards the front. (I'll remember the name in a minute...)
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That "gun" (more correctly, a rifle, a carbine, or an M-4), appears to have an optical sight, a PAQ-4 or PEQ-2 IR Illuminator, and a SureFire Millenium flashlight mounted.
I have no idea what your AR had, I can assure you that his M-4 appears to be properly configured.
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08-01-2005, 00:57
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I just noticed his BDU top, very interesting....new tiger strip?
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08-01-2005, 02:34
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I just noticed his BDU top, very interesting....new tiger strip?
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tiger stripe has been around for a while. I believe it really became "popular" during RVN.
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08-01-2005, 02:40
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tiger stripe has been around for a while. I believe it really became "popular" during RVN.
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Roger that however I have never seen US personal in the box wearing the desert tiger stripe.
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08-01-2005, 08:36
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Roger that however I have never seen US personal in the box wearing the desert tiger stripe.
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They look to be the "chocolate chips" of Desert I notoriety. The pattern has a lot more brown and some black. I don't think the active Army still issues it (too dark for ME deserts) - though it looks adequate in the terrain visible in the pictures. The flag on the sleeve is the IR visible one. It "glows" when illuminated (by IR) to keep some trigger happy gunner from lighting you up after painting you like a target. It's crooked because its velcroed to the flap of a pocket (usually the lower pockets off the front of the shirt) that has been sewn (at an angle) to the upper sleeve. The Marines and now the Army have incorporated this into the new uniforms. The bottom shirt pockets have always been pretty useless in the field with LBE over them. Add tucking in the shirt tail and body armor and they become a real PITA. I'm glad the uniform board finally accepted something front line soldiers have been doing for years. And the flag on the chest is correct. FWIW - Peregrino
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08-01-2005, 12:12
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Hi
Nice pics
It is desert-tigers.
Anyway here is another strange civi question. How is it with the uniform regulations (in Afghanistan), can you were other us uniform's, like other camoflage or plain khakis?
(thinking about Multicam etc. since the taliban mostly use's a carpet and a scarf)
I have seen operators in plain khaki and tigerstripes, are those SF or pmc's?
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08-01-2005, 16:35
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nice pics
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