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Thread: Name that Upper in Afghanistan

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    Quote Originally Posted by Guns-up.50 View Post
    yep yep
    had a guy deploy without an issue side arm but for some reason brought a glock 21???
    didn't go well
    man I love marines but sometimes????
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by ZoneOne View Post

    Those nasty girls always up to no good ;-)
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by UsnRoberts View Post
    "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.
    Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.

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    Quote Originally Posted by UsnRoberts View Post
    "What happens when it breaks? Who brought the spare parts?"

    He should have a whole crap milspec upper on standby for all the fanboys
    You don't get military logistics out in the middle of nowhere. You just don't get it.

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