
Originally Posted by
UsnRoberts
"What happens when it breaks? Who brought the spare parts?"
He should have a whole crap milspec upper on standby for all the fanboys
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.
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