To be fair, they know they're armed with SA 80s.Originally Posted by Drang
To be fair, they know they're armed with SA 80s.
Which was probably considered an improvement on typical British cooking.
Thought it was haggis.
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I've tasted haggis. My sweatband from my old Kevlar helmet tasted better.
But why did you taste the sweatband of your helmet? Unless of course it was to get the taste of haggis out of your mouth...
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FIFY.
I can't speak to the other services, but in the USMC, we still receive bayonet training at boot. It is also integrated throughout our MCMAP (Marine Corps Martial Arts Program) training. Some of the guys I talked to said they had bayonets mounted in Fallujah, and a couple of the other MOUT operations, but from what they said, didn't ever use them (people were either too far, or got inside the bayonets range and they had to transition to a regular knife.)
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The Army reportedly dropped bayonet drill form basic back in 2010 or so. I deplored the move in a blog post at the time, which is part of why me and rifle-mounted pig-stickers have become a small running joke.
The news items I linked at the time have disappeared, but Time magazine does cite the Marine Corps' conduct of bayonet training in boot, in response to Obama bloviating about stuff he knows nothing about during one of the 2012 debates. (So, Does the Military Still Use Bayonets? | TIME.com)
The WaPo version of that story does say the Army stopped bayonet drill in 2010. (Do troops still use bayonets? - The Washington Post)
Bayonet drill is an excellent tool for instilling esprit, and an aggressive fighting spirit without the troops actually going hands-on with each other, which can be an issue. (How many recruits do you want limping around, unable to do half of their training? Especially these days, when many of them use a treadmill to walk the dog?)
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That does sound like a stupid decision.
(Hm. Unlike my AK, my AR didn't come with a bayonet. I don't even know if one will fit. (16" Colt with Magpul MOE SL handguard.) All this talk of bayonets makes me want to get one and try. Because reasons.) )
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