Originally Posted by
turnburglar
Is "The Fighting Season" a multi-season series? IIRC they did a similar show on my unit, The Reapers in 2013. We where a USAF unit primarly made of security forces airmen that did most of the area security ops for the AO around Bagram.
Our main vehicles where MRaps and MATV's and we would typically dismount 10-14 bodies. To counter the RPK threat Airmen where humping the same M240B that we would mount on the vehicles. It was SOP to take 1, 240 but in sketchy areas we would deploy 2. There was also always 2 249's and 2 M203. The main benefit of being an AF unit though was our close connection to CAS. We would regularly use air frames on stand by to do our route recon, and assist with PID. When there ever was a TIC typically air support was on scene in less than 2 minutes. Im a lowely blue beret and I coordinated plenty over comms. It's really not that hard. Like others have said, the name of the game was find, fix, air asset. During my deployment all of our TICs where actually pretty close and not the typical afghan long range duel that other units seem to have. IDK just how the dice rolled.
For carbines we loaded regular green tip, althouhg we managed to scavange some m855A1 and dispersed that to our ACOG shooters that would do overwatch during traffic check points. Honestly the most effective accesory was the Peq and PVS 14. LPV would be nice, but honestly the peq was my primary sighting system. My aimpoint was my back up lol. The best evolution of the M4 IMO is the new USASOC upper from gieselle. Thats basically how my personaly owned carbine is set up and I doubt there is a better tool out there for our troops.