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<blockquote data-quote="Bastard TwoTwo" data-source="post: 858170" data-attributes="member: 71841"><p>AHHHHH.... See, I can only really testify to what *I* saw, over 3-years (over back-to-back deployments) in North/Central Iraq. And, unfortunately, as I said, that area is EXTREMELY dense in terms of urban population, which meant we couldn't just go droppin' 155's everywhere we went. God we wished we could have... but that's another story.</p><p> </p><p>I humped roughly 100-120lbs, depending on what we were doing; unfortunately, almost half that weight was body armor and water. We did ditch the crappy IBA's for plate carriers a couple months into my first deployment, but didn't ordinarily add more 'boom,' unless we were going out for more than 3 days at a shot, or going someplace like Baqubah (which was the wild f'ng west back in '06).</p><p> </p><p>Occasionally, I carried an extra 100-round belt of 7.62NATO, when I had a M240B MMG team attached to my rifle team, and for a few weeks I did moonlight as a Designated Marksman, and carried 5x 20rnd mags for an SR-25. Either way, not a fan of the extra weight vs the round limit. And I WAS kinda concerned for those of us on this thread who've never been to combat, and may not have understood the concept of combat shooting (obviously not applying to you, gary). </p><p> </p><p>I hate talking to teenagers who play military-themed video games. morons.</p><p> </p><p>WE STILL HAVE THE BUCKSHOT ROUND- IT'S JUST USED IN THE M203 NOW <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p> </p><p>CATFUR- you'd be surprised how often body armor shows up on the 21st century battlefield, and NOT just on Coalition Forces.... Haj had it more often than he didn't; usually Russian or East German surplus, but it still worked. The Iranians produce their own, which is better than the old Soviet stuff, and YES, despite what you heard on the news, IRGC and Al-Quds were actively operating in Eastern Iraq, and they were not on our side.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bastard TwoTwo, post: 858170, member: 71841"] AHHHHH.... See, I can only really testify to what *I* saw, over 3-years (over back-to-back deployments) in North/Central Iraq. And, unfortunately, as I said, that area is EXTREMELY dense in terms of urban population, which meant we couldn't just go droppin' 155's everywhere we went. God we wished we could have... but that's another story. I humped roughly 100-120lbs, depending on what we were doing; unfortunately, almost half that weight was body armor and water. We did ditch the crappy IBA's for plate carriers a couple months into my first deployment, but didn't ordinarily add more 'boom,' unless we were going out for more than 3 days at a shot, or going someplace like Baqubah (which was the wild f'ng west back in '06). Occasionally, I carried an extra 100-round belt of 7.62NATO, when I had a M240B MMG team attached to my rifle team, and for a few weeks I did moonlight as a Designated Marksman, and carried 5x 20rnd mags for an SR-25. Either way, not a fan of the extra weight vs the round limit. And I WAS kinda concerned for those of us on this thread who've never been to combat, and may not have understood the concept of combat shooting (obviously not applying to you, gary). I hate talking to teenagers who play military-themed video games. morons. WE STILL HAVE THE BUCKSHOT ROUND- IT'S JUST USED IN THE M203 NOW :D CATFUR- you'd be surprised how often body armor shows up on the 21st century battlefield, and NOT just on Coalition Forces.... Haj had it more often than he didn't; usually Russian or East German surplus, but it still worked. The Iranians produce their own, which is better than the old Soviet stuff, and YES, despite what you heard on the news, IRGC and Al-Quds were actively operating in Eastern Iraq, and they were not on our side. [/QUOTE]
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