[ArmySGT.]

Heh, buying ammo from the locals.

My MP unit bought a few RPG-7s and rockets from the locals. Using an AT-4 was going to need special permission from god.

There was talk of using them if it came down to raid and resistance was heavy.

Fortunately we never encountered heavy resistance during a raid. We always worked over 4 or more villages like we were planning raids, so the bad guys couldn't figure out where to concentrate.

I was able to scrounge quite a bit of ammo from the clearing barrels. Officers and Senior NCOs seem to get embarrassed that a live round was ejected and seldom pick them up. The other Support troops seemed to be terrified of being found with more ammunition.

From April 03-April 04 I had three (found) magazines filled with 5.56. and another 20 or so loose rounds of 9mmP.

Check points yielded every sort of AK imaginable but occasionally a Sterling or a Beretta model 12 and a Beretta M9 lost by a ARNG unit attached to our BN.