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Last edited by RogerinTPA; 08-28-13 at 21:57.
For God and the soldier we adore, In time of danger, not before! The danger passed, and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." - Rudyard Kipling
Here you go. Amazing how no one has lights or anything...oh wait.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/world_a...7623106855053/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/world_a...7628771019943/
Last edited by sinlessorrow; 08-28-13 at 22:19.
So, EVERY Soldier in the company I commanded had rails and optics (M68 or ACOG). One of my platoons had lasers designators. That was a year ago in Afghanistan.
When I was a PL in Iraq, EVERY Soldier had rails and some sort of optics (M68 or ACOG). That was in 2006.
I'm not a special guy, nor am I an infantryman..... I'm a support guy.
I'm in the mindset of 'less-is-more'. I carried an M4 with an Aimpoint Micro on it last year. If I couldn't get it with that, then I pulled something else out of my bag of tricks, like machine guns, CAS/CCA, or what have you. I even got to fire a Karl Gustav!
My space bubble for a carbine is out to 300-500m. The space bubble gets as close as 0m though, and that's a hand full.
Your experience doesn't seem to match up with ANYONE here. You're either flat out lying about your time or you stuck your head in the sand. I was in 1 CAV back in '06. We had Crimson Trace lasers for our M9's. We all had M4's with KAC rails, PEQs, Aimpoints, and ACOGs. Our 240's had Elcans and EOTechs. Same when I was with 2 ID. Same for my tour with 4ID now. The person with a stock M16A2 is the exception, not the rule. Lights, rails, lasers, and optics have been the standard for close to a decade.
Issued flashlights for our belts? Since when?
Last edited by scoutfsu99; 08-28-13 at 23:31.
Stand your ground; don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here. -- Captain John Parker, Lexington, 1775.
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