Tanner The Monotone said:
Sarge034 said:
Tanner The Monotone said:
TestECull said:
No. I only have to watch the typical American highway for 5 minutes to determine that putting those dumb bastards behind an M16 is going to cause some serious friendly fire problems, as if we didn't already have enough. Heaven forbid they get their hands on a Hummer or a Tank...they'll find a way to get them stuck. Or hit a tree. In the desert.
Yes, they're that inept.
So no compulsory service for America. It'd ruin our military.
Only the Air force uses the m16 as there main rifle anymore, and if it comes to the point where the airforce has to fight on the ground, your probably screwed anyway.
The Air Force has its own fleet of trucks, mecanics for thoes trucks, drivers for thoes trucks, convoy training for thoes troops going to the Middle East, and Airmen on the ground right now. The Air Force also has an elite Security Forces unit specifically trained to secure buildings. http://www.airmanonline.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123193069 But, on that note every service has troops on the ground, even the Navy. As for the M16 argument... The Air Force, Army, and Marines still use it. I hate Wikipedia, but it pulled the information together for me instead of haveing to link several sources. Lesser evil right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M16_rifle
I made sure the picture showed the ABU, not the DCUs, so there could be no question if they are AF or not. It's so hard to find a good picture of the ABUs, most of the pictures on the internet are so far away you can't tell if they are ABUs or ACUs.
I only took an interest in this because my father served two tours on the ground in Desert Storm/Shield and two years as a ground troop in South Korea as part of our remaining deterrence force. You might have guessed it, but he was in the AF.
OT- I'm still gonna go with it would help our society in the US to force one tour, BUT that would also destroy what we are fighting for. The right to be free.
Well,yeah,the other armed forces use it for training purposes, but the airforce use it as their main rifle.
About the ground force thing, it was kind of an army joke.
I'm all for a good branch joke, but I did put the hyperlink about the M16 in there so you could read it.
M16A3The M16A3 was a fully-automatic variant of the M16A2 adopted in small numbers around the time of the introduction of the M16A2, primarily by the U.S. Navy for use by SEAL, Seabee, and Security units.[65] It features the M16A1 trigger group providing "safe", "semi-automatic", and "fully-automatic" modes.
The M16A3 is often incorrectly described as the fully-automatic version of the M16A4 or an M16A2 with a Picatinny rail. This misunderstanding likely stems from the use of the "A3" designation by Colt and other manufacturers to describe commercial AR-15 type rifles before the official adoption of the M16A3 or M16A4. Colt used the "A3" designation in the hopes of winning military contracts as they also did with the terms, "M4" and "M5".
The M16A4, now standard issue for front-line U.S. Marine Corps and some U.S. Army units, replaces the combination fixed carry handle/rear iron sight with a MIL-STD-1913 Picatinny rail, allowing for the rifle to be equipped with a carry handle and/or most military and consumer scopes or sighting systems.[65] Military issue rifles are also equipped with a Knight's Armament Company M5 RAS handguard, allowing vertical grips, lasers, tactical lights, and other accessories to be attached, coining the designation M16A4 MWS (or Modular Weapon System) in U.S. Army field manuals.[66]
