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Sir,

Is that a knife or a bayonet in your avatar? :D

Respectfully,

FC

Great post.

Bayonet training may not be of "doctrinal importance" since Infantry has never cared much for "doctrine" in the first place. It is very important to the "killing mindset" though,...

Classic post coldstreamer.

Are troops even issued bayonets anymore? I haven't heard of anyone using one or even being issued one over in Iraq, and I have several friends that are of the 11B /...

Sir, you said it was about WILL not SKILL.

I've been training in Jiu Jitsu and MMA for several years. Whether or not I will actually ever use this training is not really the question. This...

Chest Puller is rolling over in his grave reading your posts Mr. Owen.. :D

The techniques they ingrain in you do serve a purpose of ingraining the overall Warrior spirit, that refusal to give up...

Have any of you gents ran one of the new .458's that Rock River Arms is putting out (upper receiver for the M4)? I saw a write up about them in "Leatherneck" last month. Seems like a solid round.

jcustis,

Interesting points as to what to do with spent mags and tac-loads/reloads... This happened to me in training a while back but was just sub-consciously done.

We were doing tandem...

Good points Uboat509.

I agree with you that his shots probably were not that accurate from supine, eespecially after being taken down and thinking you're hit, although he said he was making...

I had the same Glock and loved it. My only problem the price of the ammo for the .357 SIG. I traded it for a Glock 23 just because I couldn't afford to feed it now that 5.56 is so darn expensive.

It was his last measure of defense. His platoon was ambushed after the lead vehicle was IED'ed. He was hit by two AK rounds in the chest (was wearing his Interceptor), and knocked down to the...

Great points J.C. I agree completely with you as far as the type of rounds we're using being insufficient. Same goes for the 9x19 (9mm), if we could have better ammo other than FMJ, it would make...

Gents, I ran across this diagram that pertains to part of this conversation. Just thought I'd share it as it's kind of cool:

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p3/WATERMAN0027/9mmvs40vs45.gif

I need to pick up a copy of that book. Thanks for the recommendation.

Even with iron sights in very close quarters situations, you have to aim a little higher because of the 2 & 1/2" difference from the barrel to your sight. Aim for the forehead and you'll hit the...

Thanks for the feedback gents. Now that you mention that, I see what y'all are saying and come to think of it I did have that happen when we were doing medium distance - team bounding drills and we...

With iron sights, why would you be worried about losing the rear sight? The rear sight is supposed to "ghost" out, which is the reason for the aperture ring. I was trained to focus on the front...