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I'm probably a little slower than most on this, but I found out something I didn't know a couple of days ago.
My nephew is about to attend a school as a designated squad marksman as his unit is preparing to return to Iraq (his first visit, though). As he has explained it to me, though he's not a "sniper", if his squad needs some precision shooting done out to 600 meters, he's their man.
All the training he has done over here has been with the M4, but he uses a little better halo sight than the run of the mill rifleman. Visiting with him over the holidays, he said that he would be using an M14 at the school. I asked him if he would be issued an M14 after that and he said, no. Apparently as long as he's in the US his issued weapon is the M4, but when he arrives in Iraq, he'll be issued an M14.
From what I gathered, our military doesn't have enough M14's for the troops at home to have one. They're all in Iraq!
I can't tell you how tickled I was to hear that while he was in harm's way, he'd be carrying a .308 instead of a "22".
My nephew is about to attend a school as a designated squad marksman as his unit is preparing to return to Iraq (his first visit, though). As he has explained it to me, though he's not a "sniper", if his squad needs some precision shooting done out to 600 meters, he's their man.
All the training he has done over here has been with the M4, but he uses a little better halo sight than the run of the mill rifleman. Visiting with him over the holidays, he said that he would be using an M14 at the school. I asked him if he would be issued an M14 after that and he said, no. Apparently as long as he's in the US his issued weapon is the M4, but when he arrives in Iraq, he'll be issued an M14.
From what I gathered, our military doesn't have enough M14's for the troops at home to have one. They're all in Iraq!
I can't tell you how tickled I was to hear that while he was in harm's way, he'd be carrying a .308 instead of a "22".
