A Marine in the Field

[SWJED]

Both are modified Remington 700s. The M-40 has been tweeked by Marine armors.

I was once a Scout Sniper Platoon Commander, don't understand why a Marine would refer to the M40 as a M24. I did some quick research yesterday on the 'Net. It seems there is a growing consensus that this article started out as a legitimate e-mail, albeit much shorter and did not include many of the editorial-like comments that appear after the weapons' critique. Some have opined that people may have added their own particular observations and / or opinions to the original as it made the rounds across the Internet. Interesting....

On edit - I read a post on one bulletin board that the e-mail was a 'cut-and-paste' merge of several e-mails from different sources...