kwelz
Wow talk about having no knowledge of what you are talking about.
My father was retired Navy, I spent four years in the USAF and eight years in the Air National Guard until I could no longer pass the physical. On top of this I worked at a military overhaul depot for 38 years and was around U.S. Military and Exchange Military personnel my entire life.
It took the U.S. Government two years to get HUMVEE armor to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and your going to tell me I don't know what I'm talking about. The military didn't design the M16 rifle it was shoved down our throats by the Secretary of Defense Robert Strange McNamara who thought you could run the military like he had run the Ford motor Company.
Your going to tell someone he doesn't know what he is talking about who was born in 1950 which was the first birth year of the draft lottery with a draft number of 332 out of 365, are you nuts. With a draft number of 332 I never would have been drafted and top of this my feet were so flat I was 4F and ineligible for military service. With the help of my Congressman and family doctor I was given a medical waiver to serve my country and you are going to say I don't know what I'm taking about.
Let me tell you something, the M-16 was a piece of crap when it came out and was first used in Viet Nam, and it is still a piece of crap to this day. This is coming from someone who shot the early M16s and from talking to troops coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan who were stationed at the base I worked at.
Arm chair commandos my gluteus maximus, there is no substitute for bullet weight. And if you can hide behind small jungle trees and mud walls in the desert and not be hit by bullets from a M16 you are using a little mouse gun caliber rifle that should have never been accepted in the first place.
Arm chair commando you horses a$$, please look at a small peace of history I carried in my wallet for years. You will never guess where this red/orange peace of tail came from.
Its the Air Evac C-141 I worked on many times, not bad for a flat foot who didn't have to serve but chose to do so.
Clark AFB the Philippines 1973 which had the largest Hospital in the Pacific for treating the American wounded coming from Viet Nam.