
Originally Posted by
R0N
As part of getting M110s the Mk11 Mod O's were turned in as a one for one exchange.
That was the plan, and doing it unit by unit works and makes sense - then in the middle of OEF somebody realizes they're shipping piles of similar if not identical stuff back and forth, so they have units fall in on some existing stuff, let new units take in new stuff too. Let this happen over the course of a few years, and it's really easy to lard up an EDL with all sorts of redundant crap, or end up with M110's, Mk11's, Mk14EBR's, M40A3's and M40A5's in one unit alongside SR-25's and all the other stuff.
Sustained military operations just have a way of finding small sources of 'dumb' and multiplying them be 'full retard', and that's definitely one of them. As bad as this was with small arms, the gratuitous quantity of specialized and partially defunct radio equipment we wound up with was staggering. We basically filled a 7-Ton with gear for just our nominally 6-man team.
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