Re: bayonettes are too a useful device

You wrote: 

>We found them to be perfectly useful In Haiti for Crowd control. A guy 
will >recoil away from a rifle with a bayonet in that kind of situation 
before he >recoils away from just the rifle.

IMHO, anyone who wargames a crowd control situation is off his rocker.	
It's a loose-loose situation for all concerned.  The crowd gets fscked 
up, and the military takes massive hits from the media and politicians.

>They're also good for good old fashion silent kill. Especially if one 
doesn't >have the funds to afford a good combat knife in addition to a 
bayonet, as >most third world soldiers can't.

I can afford a perfectly good knife on drill pay. . . 

But you don't try to silent kill with something attached to a rifle.

John M. Atkinson