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Originally Posted by Abbott Shaull
One would of thought the S-4 would of had this problem sorted out before hand...
Maybe he was waiting for emergency such as this to push the ammo on someone...Ugh...
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Even in peacetime I've seen crew served training scrubbed because someone ordered ammo for the M85 (?) 50 cal machinegun in the cupola on an M60 rather than ammo for M2s, and the two machineguns use different and incompatible links (note: no clue what genius decided M60 tank commander's MGs should use unique links, but obviously they should be dragged out behind the Pentagon and beheaded).
I've also seen a Nat'l Guard unit that was still equipped with M16A1s try to zero and qualify with M855 green tip ammo. Official DOD guidance on that combo is "war time only, and then only within 100 meters" -- from what I saw with rounds keyholing on the 25 meter zero range I'd venture to guess DOD was being generous saying you could use it effectively in combat at 100 meters.
And was on a sniper course where someone at Ft Bragg dug very deep into the very back of some ammo bunkers and issued a mess of M118 Special Ball instead of the newer and better M118 Long Range ammo -- a lot of it with some ancient red white and blue eagle logo packaging from when 118SB was competition ammo.