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Wrenching Dad
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Jets from China Lake have been strafing our campsite all day.
Never when I have the camera handy.
Fun as hell to watch.
Been fighting with My Go Pro Hero 5 black since the day I bought it and finally have decided to default back to the Hero 3. Expensive POS. The 5 sucks.
Rolled into town for a few errands and hit a few dive bars.
Three girls came in to one and sat next to me as I was buying a round and included them too. They were excited and struck up a conversation.
They are MP's and had just qualified expert with the M4.
Also their unit switched from the .45 back to the Beretta 9.
They all qualified pistol expert too.
So they are out celebrating with a few drinks.
The M4 is a M16 Carbine or really a short barrel M16. Or at least it was when I was in the military.
They asked me if I was familiar with it and I told them "yeah the Army had a few in Viet Nam but they were mostly with the Air Force. The zoomies had them when we worked together."
We just called them Shortys and I never saw it among the Marines.
I was surprised they are still in service, thought the military moved onto something else long ago.
The girls loved the Beretta, though clunky, still less of a handful than the .45 in their tiny hands.
They really like the M4.
I never talk military much and shy away from conversations that do but they asked if it was true what they heard in their weapons training that some Marines carried three M16's.
I told them yeah, some of us did if you were designated fully automatic fire, and I did a few times.
They asked why.
"On full auto they (the Barrels) heat up fast so you rotate them. In some combat situations a guy is changing your magazines and handing one back. Also you can lay down much more fire with that method if your position is being rushed." A hell of a lot more.
They asked why some Marines today carry AK 47's they've seen when deployed.
"It's a old Marine Corps trick. The M16 and AK 47 have distinctively different sounds. Enemy uses the sound of the AK47 in the distance to locate their friendlies and are often drawn to it to regroup. They run into a pack of Marines instead."
The bad guys still fall for it.
Never when I have the camera handy.
Fun as hell to watch.
Been fighting with My Go Pro Hero 5 black since the day I bought it and finally have decided to default back to the Hero 3. Expensive POS. The 5 sucks.
Rolled into town for a few errands and hit a few dive bars.
Three girls came in to one and sat next to me as I was buying a round and included them too. They were excited and struck up a conversation.
They are MP's and had just qualified expert with the M4.
Also their unit switched from the .45 back to the Beretta 9.
They all qualified pistol expert too.
So they are out celebrating with a few drinks.
The M4 is a M16 Carbine or really a short barrel M16. Or at least it was when I was in the military.
They asked me if I was familiar with it and I told them "yeah the Army had a few in Viet Nam but they were mostly with the Air Force. The zoomies had them when we worked together."
We just called them Shortys and I never saw it among the Marines.
I was surprised they are still in service, thought the military moved onto something else long ago.
The girls loved the Beretta, though clunky, still less of a handful than the .45 in their tiny hands.
They really like the M4.
I never talk military much and shy away from conversations that do but they asked if it was true what they heard in their weapons training that some Marines carried three M16's.
I told them yeah, some of us did if you were designated fully automatic fire, and I did a few times.
They asked why.
"On full auto they (the Barrels) heat up fast so you rotate them. In some combat situations a guy is changing your magazines and handing one back. Also you can lay down much more fire with that method if your position is being rushed." A hell of a lot more.
They asked why some Marines today carry AK 47's they've seen when deployed.
"It's a old Marine Corps trick. The M16 and AK 47 have distinctively different sounds. Enemy uses the sound of the AK47 in the distance to locate their friendlies and are often drawn to it to regroup. They run into a pack of Marines instead."
The bad guys still fall for it.
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