I'm sure the dead soldiers will know to clean their weapons next time...
But since it criticizes a gun I like it must be fake.
Literally the only reason I came back to THR was to see the emotional reaction to this story. It was worth it. Feel free to hate on me for asking questions about whether we should keep rewarding Colt for this.
Why should we "hate" on you, when we can just criticize a sloppy, poorly written, story? Where is the scathing criticism of the crew-serveds that went down?
If you understand how infantry weapons are supposed to work, a equal number of failures of crew-served weapons to carbines is a horrendous failure, and considerably more cause for concern...but, I guess it helps if you've actually
seen the enemy engaged on numerous occasions (as I, and several others posting in this thread have), or have the
barest understanding of what "most casualty producing weapon" is, or even have a historical understanding of firepower and war in the last 100 years. (And if you don't know what I'm talking about, STOP REPLYING and go read
this and
this. FM 7-8 is 444 pages long online, so I don't expect to hear from some of you again for days.)
I am not an AR-15/M16 apologist of any stripe (as five minutes of research would show), so I don't have an ax to grind. As a student of military history, and a soldier, I do understand several important factors some in this thread are blithely ignoring, or just don't have the knowledge base to understand.
John