I was just a regular old line unit leg. In 03 in Iraq I was a SAW gunner and carried 900 rounds. I shot about 150 rounds total throughout the entire invasion being on the front lines. In 05 in Iraq I carried a M16-DMR and carried 11 mags. That whole year I fired about half a mag.
Both times the Bradleys, Abrams and humvees did the vast majority of the shooting. I could have easily dropped down to a few extra mags. However the guys up in the mountains of Afghanistan don't have the luxury of mobile armored death machines.

