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Originally posted by DarkJedi
M-16s had all sorts of jamming problems during the Vietnam war. It was so bad that that US soldiers would often pick up & use AK-47s since they were more reliable.
30+ years later, I see the M-16 is still a jamming piece of shit.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp.../lynch_book_18
"..Lynch dismisses early reports that she had engaged in a firefight with the Iraqis who ambushed the convoy. Like many soldiers in her company, the M-16 rifle she carried had jammed with grime and airborne sand. She fired no shots, she said.."
P.S.
US special forces are using captured AKs too.
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Jessica Lynch belonged to a supply unit. The only weapons training that they had was probably what they received in their eight weeks of Basic. They may or may not have even made the rifle range once per year. Weapons use and maintinance was not a major part of their MOS's. In addition they had been in a sand storm and more than likely did not clean their weapons for the ready. The Army needs to learn a lesson from this...and adopt the doctrine of the Corp...every marine in theory is a Rifleman first and other duties are secondary...but even in the Corp for the most part that is in "theory".