MTMilitiaman
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M16A4 w/RCO, Grip Pod, 3-battery Surefire white light, and PEQ-2
M249 SAW with spare short barrel, quad-rail forend, Grip Pod, PEQ-2, and this collapsible M4-style stock that brought the finished weapon weight to 19 pounds, unloaded.
I felt confident in my ability to hit with either, but actually would have preferred several other options. For anything where the M16 with the RCO would have been useful, I would have preferred my M1A with a low powered variable. The M4s were very popular with squad leaders (equipped with M203s) and turret gunners, but weren't general issue, and I would have preferred an AK, or really any number of other modern carbines. The M249 was decent, but too heavy for what it does. It may be belt fed, but it is still a poodle shooter, and there is no place in this world for any 20 pound poodle shooter. I would have rather carried the extra weight of any of the later, more advanced M60 or M240 variants and had 7.62mm firepower than carried a 19 pound 5.56mm--esp since the 200 round boxes were loud, awkward, and clumsy, and most often discarded in favor of 100-round "nut sacks." I would have also rather had one of the newer, upgraded short-barreled PKMs, again, because it provides belt-fed 7.62mm firepower in a package with comparable weight to the SAW, or the RPK/RPD, because they provided comparable firepower in a package with less weight.
M9s were reserved for NCOs and higher. Doc Brown had one too.
M249 SAW with spare short barrel, quad-rail forend, Grip Pod, PEQ-2, and this collapsible M4-style stock that brought the finished weapon weight to 19 pounds, unloaded.
I felt confident in my ability to hit with either, but actually would have preferred several other options. For anything where the M16 with the RCO would have been useful, I would have preferred my M1A with a low powered variable. The M4s were very popular with squad leaders (equipped with M203s) and turret gunners, but weren't general issue, and I would have preferred an AK, or really any number of other modern carbines. The M249 was decent, but too heavy for what it does. It may be belt fed, but it is still a poodle shooter, and there is no place in this world for any 20 pound poodle shooter. I would have rather carried the extra weight of any of the later, more advanced M60 or M240 variants and had 7.62mm firepower than carried a 19 pound 5.56mm--esp since the 200 round boxes were loud, awkward, and clumsy, and most often discarded in favor of 100-round "nut sacks." I would have also rather had one of the newer, upgraded short-barreled PKMs, again, because it provides belt-fed 7.62mm firepower in a package with comparable weight to the SAW, or the RPK/RPD, because they provided comparable firepower in a package with less weight.
M9s were reserved for NCOs and higher. Doc Brown had one too.