HorseSoldier
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Awhile back I watched the helmet camera footage of a squad of Marines trying to take out a sniper whose only cover was the crenelations on a building rooftop. Their 5.56 couldn't penetrate and ever time someone tried to get a headshot he'd shoot first.
A Marine brought up a SMAW and as he was drawing a bead the sniper nailed his SMAW's optical sight, luckily the bullet fragmented and didn't drill through his head.
They finally got him but he had an entire squad pinned for along time, and a WW2 BAR would have smoked him in seconds without having to take time trying for a headshot, same for a squad armed with FN FAL with AP rounds for that matter. They'd have chewed through his cover so quick he'd have had no time to move out.
The main point of this story seems to be that there were three Marines in that squad who should have been docked half a month's pay for forgetting what that big 40mm tube underneath their rifles was there for.