
Originally Posted by
ABNAK
No shit. Especially given the USMC's reputation for marksmanship it seems retarded to remove the optics as it requires a re-zero of the weapon. Sure, you should be "close" but I personally wouldn't be comfortable with it.
I can't speak for anyone else's unit, but for the ones I was in, we only removed the optics for cleaning while in garrison. When we would conduct live-fire field ops, rezeroing was the first event on the list. For extended field ops and deployments, we wouldn't touch the optics unles they were broken. I know some senior NCOs out there who can't get out of garrison mode, so I have no doubt the issue exists in some units.
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