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You know that whole escapade as always left me amused:
Here you have US soldiers in a far off land fighting die-hard muslim insurgents and it is found that their 9mm(ish) pistols are not up to the job, so they bring back a .45 pistol.
Fast forward a hundred years and here you have US soldiers in a far off land...
What is they say about learning from history? 
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That the US military doesn't read its own history? LOL!
You can almost see some staff weenie telling the general all about how cool the 9mm is and how everybody else in NATO is using it...
Makes you wish that ole George Patton was there to say "It takes a .45 to knock the $#&(%^(&@%^@@^%$^@ down for good!"
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On a earlier post about fuel tanks and tank drivers, just think of the M1 driver: fuel tank to the left, fuel tank to the right, a hatch that won't open with NV installed, a heater that always leaks a few inches behind his head to the left, and a halon nozzle a few inches behind his head to the right.
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Could be worse, at least he doesn't have 30 rounds of main gun on either side...