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Post by woodyz on Jul 5, 2015 16:56:31 GMT -7
Strong Men Armed The Marine Corps 1st Force Reconnaissance Company Article by: Patrick A. Rogers The following is the first part of a 3 part article spanning 4 issues of The Accurate Rifle. Part I : January 2000 Volume 3 Number 12 Part II: February 2001 Volume 4 Number 1 Part III Section 1: April 2001 Volume 4 Number 3 Part III Section 2: May 2001 Volume 4 Number 4 The Accurate Rifle 222 McKee Street Manchester CT 06040 860 645-8776 www.theaccuraterifle.comClick on any photograph to view an enlarged version. Use your back button to return to the article. read it here if you dare: www.forcerecon.com/strongmenarmed.htm
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Post by woodyz on Jul 5, 2015 17:07:53 GMT -7
I think I would take issue with some of his "finding" based on my experience.
But over all a good informative and long article
You do have to watch out between the was and is
he mixes up the then and now too much IMO
I think the history compared to the now is a very good idea, but he gets the reader confused about which line he is straddling in a particular paragraph.
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Post by woodyz on Jul 5, 2015 17:43:55 GMT -7
I didn't like having to pack in and out an M16 (soon traded for a xm177 because it was lighter and shorter (but just as long once a suppressor was added) and folded down even smaller) but soon left for pickup on the way out.
A suppressed Colt 1911. A HI Standard .22 with built on suppressor (when it started getting louder or fowling you just got a new one and threw it away) Then the semi-auto 12 ga with a one oz slug in a 3" magnum followed by a load of 00 buck. and a 40 MM blooper with a bandelier full of different loads, I liked it when it was right for the job, but it was too big and the rounds were awkward to carry around. They eventually came out with the xm177 with a colt 148 launcher attached but you still had to pack the 40mm shells and if you had a bandelier around you and a bullet or even a fragment hit a WP round you were toast.
We ended up hauling it all in from the drop, then stashing everything but the two handguns and maybe the shotgun and picking them up on the way back out.
when it came to gear and clothing we wore what they were going to be wearing, black silk and a big woven hat. The geneva Convention didn't apply to us in that capacity, its why we could use .22 and shotguns, both a no no in the normal rules of engagement, but we were not covered by them.
I already talked about how I would stop eating beef and eat only rice with fish or chicken or a little pork. After I would come back from a week or ten days out I could smell the pilot and everybody else who was eating the un natural food. I would lose 15 or 20 # between sweating and not eating much. Which is why we were only supposed to be deployed on one mission a month to give us time to gain back some weight and get rehydrated. Of course that wasn't a rule that got followed much either.
That's the thing few people realize about just a few MOS's that were basically uncounted. 5811 MP was not part of a combat headcount, you could only have a set number of 326 recon headcount, you had to lose one or get an expanded mission to get any replacement/additional people. But support people like 5811, they were Commanding Officer entitled headcount, so if you had a 5811 who was forecon qualified he was free from being counted as a forecon, as wounded, or as KIA on the forecon head count. The third Marine MP battalion Provost Marshall's Special Response Team was counted as H&HS headquarters headcount and he had a whole division of forecon rated 5811's.
well enough on that, some of you should enjoy his articles.
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Post by Redneckidokie on Jul 5, 2015 21:07:50 GMT -7
Love the avatar! LoL
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Post by Redneckidokie on Jul 7, 2015 7:23:48 GMT -7
Asking some to get a clue, is like asking a frog not to bump his but when he jumps! LoL
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