Had a SAW gunner in 08 shoot himself in the leg with a pistol he brought with him. In the end it was decided since he shot himself it was punishment enough.
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I hope this is a poor attempt at humor. I've been in the NG my entire 13 going on 14 year career (albeit AGR) and the last time I checked, haji didn't ask me if I was a "nasty girl" before he engaged me at close range or decided to rain mortars down on my position. My purple heart is the same as those in the "real" army.
The point is that when you deviate from what is issued and what is a program of record you lose the logistical tail to that piece of equipment. If you have a battalion's worth of guys with all different uppers and they start to have problems then you're in for a bad day if you can't get them fixed. On my last deployment to Afghanistan we had the Alaskan tents that had A/Cs that would break. The tents were not a program of record within the Marine Corps so we could not easily get the parts to fix them. We ended up with a pile of non-functioning A/Cs. While tents and rifles are very different the maintenance processes to get parts and fix them are the same.