Re: Idiots that run off at the mouth withou actually having a clue.

Damn, John, there goes the job at Department of Sate I had lined up for
you... 

Seriously, You have to try and cut some slack here.  A lot of people
(say
an Ex-Zoomie like me) never carried a weapon except the 4 hours on the
firing range and in class (no shit, 4 <deleted> hours, total) the whole
seven years.  And I was not unusual in that.  

Add in the guys who never had the privilege of serving and you have a
lot
of people who don't understand the 'reality' of this kind of detail.  

I would love a PDW that didn't get in my way tracking, moving and
delivering supplies to the line units (scratch most rifles, most
carbines, and some SMG's;) that was light (realatively) and small
(relatively) - scratch the rest of them; and that could kill somebody at
reasonable ranges (at this point all the remaining pistols/revolvers on
my short list drop off and I wonder if I could kill somebody with a
blank
piece of paper...) 

I could list several other  things I want that are equally fantastic but
1)I'm married and 2)There are ladies on the list.  Some decorum is
called
for at least occasionally. <grin>

Gracias,
Glenn/Triphibious@juno.com
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On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 18:58:09 -0800 (PST) John Atkinson
<johnmatkinson@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>--- Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:
>> At 10:51 PM -0500 1/31/02, Glenn M Wilson wrote:
>> >
>> >Three letters:
>> >
>> >PDW - Personal Defense Weapon.
>> 
>> I'd rather have a PDW that I could carry around on
>> my every day 
>> Military truck drving job rather than leaving my
>> M-16 in my cab. 
>
>If you actually were in the military and actually did
>drive a truck, you'd find yourself about neck deep in
>shit the first time you left your rifle in the cab of
>a truck.  The rule is arm's length, and the US Army's
>NCO Corps is pretty good at enforcing this rule.  The
>first time you would have gotten the crap smoked out
>of you, you'd start taking that sort of thing
>seriously.  The second time you'd be in about the same
>amount of shit, but head first.
>
>FWIW, I had an M-16A2 in Kosovo that didn't leave my
>side for any reason whatsoever--the only time I broke
>that rule was when I was in the shower, and it leaned
>in the corner of the latrine about 5 feet from me. 
>Yeah, it was a pain in the ass.  But better that than
>letting some Albanian reject decide he liked it and
>walk off with it.  Did I actually fire it?  No.  Never
>had to--we got enough respect from the locals that we
>only had to threaten a few times.  Were there some
>times when I had a round in the chamber and my thumb
>on the safety?  Hell yes.  And that would not have
>been the time to decide to leave it somewhere
>"convenient".
>
>John
>
>
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