When I read stuff like this, all I hear is that he wasn’t there for either invasion. He “didn’t allow” his troops to be hungry or ill equipped?
ALICE ammo pouches zip-stripped to IBAS. I could push hard on my stomach & feel my spine. When I switched jobs to drive for the BN XO, I got issued a M16A4 without an optic. The Maj only had a pistol & so kept a battlefield recovery AK in our soft-top HMMWV (no doors, no armor).
As far as hungry? We were down to 1 MRE & 1 bottle of water a day at some points, we drank boiling Iraqi water to survive. Some guys contracted Tuberculosis as a result, but we had to survive.
When a weapon in a Mech platoon went down, there were no replacements, so drivers carried an open-bolt/ no buttstock/ M231 Port Firing weapon duct-taped to a sling. M240 gunners didn’t have pistols. They lugged machine guns with no personal defense option. Our 1SG’s and some of our medics were still using Vietnam era M113’s as vehicles. They constantly broke down.
You know what? Even in 2014, as a Green Beret, a 3 hour drive from the next group of Americans, we had times where we were ill supplied, hungry, ran out of water, were ill equipped. We were often running Kevlar blanketed GMV’s in the age of up-armored trucks.
All this guy proved with his statement was that he was never on the bleeding edge of either war.
Agamemnon’s brother, Menelaus lord of the war cry
led their sixty ships, armed them apart, downshore,
and amidst their ranks he marched, ablaze with valor,
priming men for attack. And his own heart blazed the most
to avenge the groans and shocks of war they’d borne for Helen.
The DOJ failed to protect common-sense regulations on silencers, short-barreled rifles, and other uniquely dangerous firearms and devices that have been in place since 1934!
Our electeds are supposed to serve the American people, not the gun industry.
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