More importantly, the mags are most likely post-ban.
and even more importantly, the mags are marked "FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT OR MILITARY USE ONLY".
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More importantly, the mags are most likely post-ban.
I was in the Mass Army Guard for 6 years, I never saw anything like that. I did get my ass smoked for losing a blank adaptor once.
I can certainly understand variation from branch to branch, but this practice would be completely unthinkable in the USMC. One of my issued mags had a large dent in the side and would jam with every shot fired. I took it to the armory to get it swapped out and was told to disassemble it and try and tap out the dent. It got to the point that I was trying to find mags online from places that would ship to Hawaii (where I was stationed). Eventually the mag deteriorated so much that the spring actually burst out the right side of the magazine during an annual qual. I got an alibi for that course of fire and a brand new (to me) magazine. During my enlistment I saw only 3 new mags still sealed in the plastic.
My cousin has a friend who's son is in the National Guard. He claims that after they use their weapons on the range they just throw away the empty mags.from the M16's.
I'm not going to say that your cousin's friend's son's story isn't true, but my niece's roommate's hairdresser suggested that they may have confused magazine and stripper clip.
Although, after 19 years in the Air Guard, it wouldn't surprise me at all that they tossed them. If our supply had received an entire set of new replacement mags, I'm sure they would have told the last people to draw the old mags to toss them, rather than have to deal with throwing them away themselves.
We sent probably 2000 unused 20 round mags to DRMO when we converted our M16A1s to A2s a couple years back. The only parts of the rifle they kept were the lower, buffer tubes and buffers. Most of those rifles we uncased were last seen by workers at Colt - never issued, never even had the preservative cleaned off.
served 6 years as a Marine infantryman and 9 years with the USCG. We have never tossed magazines after range days. Brass yes.
altmf.....When I was in Basic Training many moons ago, yes the Army gave us a "Basic Issue" of uniforms including the Cammies, Class A's and footgear which we would take when we PCS'd. All else which we used throughout Basic had to be cleaned and returned to the CIF (Central Issue Facility) before clearing the Post. When reporting to the new Duty Station, you'd be re-issued whatever else you would need all over again.
for a BFA? wow.
what would be the penalty for dragging a 30+ foot tree into your FOB that was jammed into your m113's suspension and then leaving it there for a few days before you had KBR get it out?
I may be wrong but as far as I know: The army provides all hygiene gear and equipment used in basic training for free. Is this true?
My cousin has a friend who's son is in the National Guard. He claims that after they use their weapons on the range they just throw away the empty mags.from the M16's.
Anyone know if there's any truth to this? I find that it's kind of hard to believe.
Thank in advance
Again, this is specific to the Marine Corps, so YMMV, but I also recall that during the annual qualification course of fire magazine retention was taught and required for the rapid fire. At the 200 and 300 yard lines you would fire a magazine of five rounds then reload and fire another magazine of five rounds. If you did not at least attempt to retain the magazine you would be penalized. We were even taught in bootcamp to unbutton the top button of our blouse to just toss the magazine in there. That suggests to me that the mags were not considered to be an expendable item.
If I remember correctly,(it's been 10 years since I got out) the ammo is on stripper clips and they give you a speed loader to go on the mags. Your choice. load individually, or use the loader.
When Marines deploy in the field, is all of the ammo you carry in mags or does some go in stripper clips or boxes?
Yes, but do Marines (being specific here because of the training you all apparently received -- see above) carry any loose or packaged ammo which would facilitate the need to reload the mags one would otherwise discard, say after one engagement while things are in a lull. Carrying more ammo would seem to make a lot of sense for units going into an area where egress is not readily available. Ammo on stripper clips uses less than 1/2 the space of ammo in a mag so one could conceivably carry either more (weight limited), or simply limit the physical space needed for mags to streamline gear carried.
Otherwise there doesn't seem to be a very good reason beyond frugality for having someone open up their shirt and stuffing mags in the pocket it creates while taking fire. In fact, it kinda seems stupid to risk a life for <$100 worth of mags (assuming 210 rds is what an individual soldier carries.)
In the real world, no one would crack open their flak to save a $8 mag that probably didn't work that well in the first place, lol. Hopefully that answered your question, as I was really trying to stay on topic.