[Knitebane]

Ask the USMC if they’ve had this problem, or the 82nd or SFs or other non-leg troops.

The SOCOM troops are moving to the SCAR.

[Travis McGee]

Sure, and they don't have any budget constraints. They can throw 3,000 bucks at guns for everybody. Back when I was an operator, we each had parachutes, Draeger closed circuit scuba, etc etc etc. For 16 of us, we traveled with SEVEN ten foot cargo containers to hold all our gear! In the teams today, each guy has a walk-in gear cage. Not a locker, a ROOM for his issued gear! Money was and is no object in SpecWar.

Now I'm a civilian, and we are comparing ARs to AKs on this thread. We don't have 100K per "operator" gear budgets. My point is, our common, ordinary gas gun ARs DO SHOOT and shoot damn well, way out past ranges an AK cannot even hit a car at.

This BS about suddenly discovering that gas guns won't shoot is CRAP by amateurs. And excuse making by a small group of Army guys with dirty guns who got mudsucked at some outpost.

Look, you'll either believe it or you won't. I've gone out of airplanes and submarines with ARs. I've dived with them, swum with them, crawled through mud with them, and then shot them. THEY SHOOT!

Now, suddenly, we're supposed to discover that gas guns don't work, and shitcan them for the XYZ Corps 3,000 dollar piston guy?

What bullshit.