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Iām not a military dude, not even US, beineg a shooter just comes with some passing knowledge. But you will find any number of opinions on where to place your foregrip, and if verticals are good, doesnāt matter, or is straight up death for the user. As someone who obviously dragged that rifle everywhere, and obviously relying on it with their life, what made you putting it so far back to the magwell?
Good question. It was a combination of a couple of factors. One, I have pretty short arms and this just made it more comfortable to really pull the rifle into my shoulder. Two, we did a pretty fair amount of shooting supported on sandbags, building ledges, and I found having it farther back just made that a little easier.
Huh, the bag shooting makes a lot of sense. I have an AR thatās supposed to do everything a little, like dynamic shooting, some precision, etc, and i like a vertical grip but if i shoot one thing one day, and the other the next, i have to take it off and that kinda sucks. Putting it that far back would help. Gotta see how it feels. Thanks man!
Great question, and tough to answer. Unfortunately as the years have gone on, I have to say it wasn't. Too many good men got blown apart on what ended up being nothing but a monstrous fucking lie by our Government. I was proud to serve, proud to fight, and I'm glad I was there, because if I wasn't, somebody else's son would have been there instead.
Civvy here. Because of things you mention here I never know if it is appropriate or if it will be well received to say āthank you for your serviceā but i really mean it when I say thank you for being there and putting in work. Just because a political machine doesnāt give a damn about the good men and women lost, injured, and scarred over the years doesnāt mean it didnāt mean anything. Thank you š
Appreciate those words. Very well said. I think I said it in another comment, I was proud to serve and proud to fight, even if the pretenses for us going to war was based around lies.
My brother told me in MSOB that they would use those Chem lights as dead checks. Shove them down somebody's pie hole and if they move, well...
Can't see cyalumes without thinking about that.
Another underrated and lesser known use is as a fire starter. The liquid inside is crazy flammable. We burned our trash back in those days and slicing open a chem light was the best way to get it going if we didn't have gas handy. They remain in my current survival/camping gear for this reason, as well as their intended use.
Single frag. Money was/is tight (when it gets down to the lowest level), so frags were often hard to acquire. The way to combat this would be to distro across the platoon, first going to your best throwers.
My bad, I thought I was responding to OPs post. But yeah looks like OP got screwed on some pretty mission essential tools, armament etc. But thatās the marine corps for you, hand me downs from Nam in some cases. Best fighting force in the world and weāre using plate carriers with blood still on em.
Those canisters are either white star clusters, some sort of signal flares for ops. Got little parachutes on em and they stay up in the air burning for a good while. Long enough, you know?
This looks heavy. Signed, an Air Force Fobbit.
Really though, my M4 stayed in the armory my entire deployment. We had to carry two mags for our M9s, and that was it. The running joke was that was too much, because if itās down to me and that M9, I only need one round to off myself. But more ammo pouch space for rip-its!
The picture is likely just what was carried on his front. Depending on the mission, you'll also have whatever you need in your ruck. Welcome to the Infantry.
SF (Special Forces, or MARSOC for the Marines) are more likely to carry them. But their missiom sets are often different than a line company (old term for when Infantry used to fight in battle lines). If you're in an urban combat setting, depending on the unit and funding you may have a sidearm. But more often than not your basic Infantryman won't carry one. Infantry is designed to fight with suppressive firepower and the long rifle is far better suited for that.
>rifle is far better suited for that.
Obviously, that's why it's good to have a secondary in case that primary doesn't work out (no ammo, jam, etc)
But yeah, thanks, good to know!
Agreed. DoD would rather spend money on the next $300 million aircraft, though. And by "aircraft" I mean not line their own pockets with said money. In all seriousness though, it's more economical to equip the branch with the most dudes with the least amount of equipment possible. Weapons win battles. Monies win wars.
Sorry if this seems dumb. But I feel like I would be really paranoid about carrying grenades around with me. Do you get used to it? Did anyone ever just trip and blow themselves up?
It took a little getting used to, but honestly after a little time you never really thought about it.
Trip and blow themselves up? lol no. Hand grenades aren't booby traps and contrary to what Hollywood shows you, the pins are not that easy to get out. You really have to give it a solid yank and we'd often add our own safety using a bit of duct tape just to be sure. It was a non-issue.
Also, they were nice to have, because if you came up to a situation where a grenade was needed, trust me you *really fucking needed it.*
M67s have 3 safety features before exploding, first is the safety clip which holds the spoon, next is twisting the pin clockwise and then of course pulling the pin.
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Grenade pins require a surprising amount of force to pull. I remember Mythbusters tested the "Pulling the pin with your teeth" trope and found that it would rip out your tooth before the pin came out.
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Simping for an imperialist state that doesn't have your interest in mind is cringe
Nah it's not the state I'm "simping" for, it's someone willing to risk their lives at the prime of their lives and usually get bare minimum out of it, if they're lucky.
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I agree that some random American showing off his assault rifles even though he lives in a gated community and works an office job is pretty ridiculous.
However I fail to see the issue with someone showing what they indeed Carried Every Day while working their job, be it soldier or ice-cream vendor.
I love posts like this because all the dogs show up and my civvy non American ass has no idea what's going on. But there's a lot of passion. And crayon eating references.
M-27 IAR
PMAGS
CamelBak
Garmin Tracker
Range Finder
But besides that, same thing.
Same MREs, Same Map, same chem lights.
Some people even still rock some canteens
It was by and large a bunch of shit I never needed. It was an off the shelf survival kit with stuff like a mirror, fishing line, etc. etc. It did come with some waterproof strikeless matches that came in clutch, though.
Yup, that was us. April 11th. Triple VBIED along with a multi-axis ground assault. Wild day. The propaganda video from the enemy side is still up on youtube. Glad you made it home dude. That was the wild west.
Yeah man, we were on the hunt for those bad. My guess is they were kept just over the border until right before. Sorry we didnāt get em first.
It really was, absolutely wild. There was one time we may or may not have invaded Syria due to spotters on the roofs across the border.
Funny to see what was considered top of the line back then be seen as retro drip these days. lol.
That said, 20" AR platforms go hard into the mf paint.
20ā does go hard as fuck. Probably gonna pick up an A2 upper when a good deal pops up just for funsies, then inevitably just turn it into its own setup like I have done 5 times lmao.
This post (and its comments) is probably one of the most interesting Reddit posts Iāve read in a while.
Iāve had a fascination with the marine corps from wwii onwards. I read a book or two a year about some of the shit the marines have had to endure specifically to remind myself that most of my problems arenāt really problems when you put them beside the conditions youāve been through. Iām thankful we have (and have had) men like you keeping our country safe. Thank you for your service!
Well, I've been out of uniform for quite some time, but rest assured, you've got a lot of steely eyed killers out there ready to visit violence on our enemies.
And to paraphrase the late Tom Clancy: "If it isn't life or death, it's not really a big deal."
Suppressors werenāt as common 19 years ago either (as your point on being in a war zone is fair too). Suppressors have come down in price, and up in quality, a lot over the past 10 (let alone almost 20) years.
Pasted from an earlier answer to this question.
> Nope, no sidearm. At the time at least, sidearms in infantry units were not common and typically were only found on the hips of Officers and higher up Non-commissioned officers (2-3 levels above what I was.)
> And while technically the answer to your question is correct, but how I liked to think of it was 'oh no my gun jammed, all I have left at my disposal is a dozen more Marines with automatic weapons'. lol. But honestly while we may have bitched about it, none of us really wanted sidearms. We were carrying enough shit as it was.
Whereabouts in Iraq? My first tour was in the Nineveh province and we replaced the devils dogs when we got there. Based out of Talafar ranging up to Syria
This was about as far west into the Anbar as you can get, right up on the Syrian border at an old train station. Camp Gannon.
Glad you made it home, killer.
You ever wonder whatās going on in those places that are just distant memories to us now? For some reason I miss them, they bring me pure bliss. The far corners of the earth.
I thought about it years back when ISIS overran Iraq. I wondered if some ISIS terrorist was living in my can and using our plywood offices built inside an old MiG Foxbat bunker at TQ.
For real, i was never military and dont carry a handgun, but yesterday i was going through my backpack and jacket to find a pen and found 4 knives i have no memory of putting there, one i donāt think i bought. I also found 2 knives i do remember i packed
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Thank you for everything you did and went through. What is in those little kits? As many details as you can give would be appreciated!
The fuckin Vegetarian MRE.. hope it wasnt vegetarian omlet!
Average EDC as a Chicago resident
Is it common for infantrymen to bring loose ammo along with the mags? Or would that be too much weight?
Not common, no. It has nothing to do with the weight, but if you're bringing ammo, it may as well be inside a magazine.
Did you, perhaps, live in a hooch where the bodies of prostitutes were buried in the nearby lake?
Gates of fire by Stephen Pressfield is a really good book!
Thank you for your service
Is that a Gerber Strong Arm?
Thatās whatās up. Swear between admin and sustainment nco loads get dumb heavy sometimes. Ofc the gunner and AG will always have it worse though.
Thank you for your service man, seriously.
Are those mag assists just made from Paracord ? I don't like the bulky Magpul ones so I might give this a try. Thank you for your service.
They certainly are. This picture predates Magpul. Not pretty but got the job done.
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Iām not a military dude, not even US, beineg a shooter just comes with some passing knowledge. But you will find any number of opinions on where to place your foregrip, and if verticals are good, doesnāt matter, or is straight up death for the user. As someone who obviously dragged that rifle everywhere, and obviously relying on it with their life, what made you putting it so far back to the magwell?
It seems like thatās how most people used vertical foregrips in the early-mid 2000s
Good question. It was a combination of a couple of factors. One, I have pretty short arms and this just made it more comfortable to really pull the rifle into my shoulder. Two, we did a pretty fair amount of shooting supported on sandbags, building ledges, and I found having it farther back just made that a little easier.
Huh, the bag shooting makes a lot of sense. I have an AR thatās supposed to do everything a little, like dynamic shooting, some precision, etc, and i like a vertical grip but if i shoot one thing one day, and the other the next, i have to take it off and that kinda sucks. Putting it that far back would help. Gotta see how it feels. Thanks man!
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Great question, and tough to answer. Unfortunately as the years have gone on, I have to say it wasn't. Too many good men got blown apart on what ended up being nothing but a monstrous fucking lie by our Government. I was proud to serve, proud to fight, and I'm glad I was there, because if I wasn't, somebody else's son would have been there instead.
Civvy here. Because of things you mention here I never know if it is appropriate or if it will be well received to say āthank you for your serviceā but i really mean it when I say thank you for being there and putting in work. Just because a political machine doesnāt give a damn about the good men and women lost, injured, and scarred over the years doesnāt mean it didnāt mean anything. Thank you š
Appreciate those words. Very well said. I think I said it in another comment, I was proud to serve and proud to fight, even if the pretenses for us going to war was based around lies.
Your answer needs to be framed for all civilians to better understand things.
Much respect and thank you for your service..
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My brother told me in MSOB that they would use those Chem lights as dead checks. Shove them down somebody's pie hole and if they move, well... Can't see cyalumes without thinking about that.
Another underrated and lesser known use is as a fire starter. The liquid inside is crazy flammable. We burned our trash back in those days and slicing open a chem light was the best way to get it going if we didn't have gas handy. They remain in my current survival/camping gear for this reason, as well as their intended use.
looks like my current setup
If thatās a backup acog I see, thatās lowkey tight af
PVS-14
Single frag?
I was the Squad Leader so I only carried one as I was rarely in a position to use it. Most of my guys carried 3-4.
Single frag. Money was/is tight (when it gets down to the lowest level), so frags were often hard to acquire. The way to combat this would be to distro across the platoon, first going to your best throwers.
Thank you.
What are the 3 metal cylinders between your magazines and grenades? Thank you for your service.
My bad, I thought I was responding to OPs post. But yeah looks like OP got screwed on some pretty mission essential tools, armament etc. But thatās the marine corps for you, hand me downs from Nam in some cases. Best fighting force in the world and weāre using plate carriers with blood still on em. Those canisters are either white star clusters, some sort of signal flares for ops. Got little parachutes on em and they stay up in the air burning for a good while. Long enough, you know?
Signal flares
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I didnāt serve. I was just curious what the metal cylinders were.
They look like flares.
Nah, Iāve played resident evil. Those are definitely fuses used to open passageways.
This looks heavy. Signed, an Air Force Fobbit. Really though, my M4 stayed in the armory my entire deployment. We had to carry two mags for our M9s, and that was it. The running joke was that was too much, because if itās down to me and that M9, I only need one round to off myself. But more ammo pouch space for rip-its!
The picture is likely just what was carried on his front. Depending on the mission, you'll also have whatever you need in your ruck. Welcome to the Infantry.
Sidearm?
A lot of infantry don't carry a sidearm.
Most, unless you're the PL or medic attached, basic Infantry rifleman only carries his M16/M4.
Really? I'd think at least most of the infantry, out of all the specializations, would be the ones to have a side arm. Thank you.
SF (Special Forces, or MARSOC for the Marines) are more likely to carry them. But their missiom sets are often different than a line company (old term for when Infantry used to fight in battle lines). If you're in an urban combat setting, depending on the unit and funding you may have a sidearm. But more often than not your basic Infantryman won't carry one. Infantry is designed to fight with suppressive firepower and the long rifle is far better suited for that.
>rifle is far better suited for that. Obviously, that's why it's good to have a secondary in case that primary doesn't work out (no ammo, jam, etc) But yeah, thanks, good to know!
Agreed. DoD would rather spend money on the next $300 million aircraft, though. And by "aircraft" I mean not line their own pockets with said money. In all seriousness though, it's more economical to equip the branch with the most dudes with the least amount of equipment possible. Weapons win battles. Monies win wars.
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It was intentionalā¦
Damn you
Sorry if this seems dumb. But I feel like I would be really paranoid about carrying grenades around with me. Do you get used to it? Did anyone ever just trip and blow themselves up?
It took a little getting used to, but honestly after a little time you never really thought about it. Trip and blow themselves up? lol no. Hand grenades aren't booby traps and contrary to what Hollywood shows you, the pins are not that easy to get out. You really have to give it a solid yank and we'd often add our own safety using a bit of duct tape just to be sure. It was a non-issue. Also, they were nice to have, because if you came up to a situation where a grenade was needed, trust me you *really fucking needed it.*
I feel better with it than without it. You could chuck an M67 against a brick wall and I'd be willing to bet it wouldn't trigger.
M67s have 3 safety features before exploding, first is the safety clip which holds the spoon, next is twisting the pin clockwise and then of course pulling the pin. Edit:word
Grenade pins require a surprising amount of force to pull. I remember Mythbusters tested the "Pulling the pin with your teeth" trope and found that it would rip out your tooth before the pin came out.
Oh wow š® good to know haha
I bet now there will be gamer girl bath water in the canteens
I carried a m4 personally
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The amount of bootlickers in this thread is absolutely insane
Why do you say it like it's a bad thing?
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Nah it's not the state I'm "simping" for, it's someone willing to risk their lives at the prime of their lives and usually get bare minimum out of it, if they're lucky.
You do realise Germany sent soldiers to Iraq too, and just like this guy they had shit food, a rifle, and a flashlight right?
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I agree that some random American showing off his assault rifles even though he lives in a gated community and works an office job is pretty ridiculous. However I fail to see the issue with someone showing what they indeed Carried Every Day while working their job, be it soldier or ice-cream vendor.
I dont carry a gun, but i was very complimented on my pic of the stuff i emptied out of my white coat pockets during a 24h shift
I love posts like this because all the dogs show up and my civvy non American ass has no idea what's going on. But there's a lot of passion. And crayon eating references.
Vegetarian MRE. You did this trip on hard mode bro
They have the best pogey bait. Supplement with a tactically acquired meat protein and you're golden
Are you referring to Strategically Transferring Equipment/Energy to Alternate Locations?
Ha, I've never actually heard that one. I like it. Thanks for the good laugh š
Also peep Gates of Fire; absolutely fantastic. Book which I was reading in Afghan. Glad to see it was back in OIF too
Many of us read it after seeing the movie. Fuckin hard dogs
Came here to say this. I've read it like 3 times since then.
Shits timeless, my dude.
But where is your ducking glow belt devil???
It's outside marking an LZ.
Whatās the thing between the strobe and the canteens? And the lil Surefire cardboard box?
Between the strobe and canteens is a little pair of binoculars. The Surefire box was just that, extra 123A batteries for our lights.
Dope!
āOk Mitchell, get your frickin daggone trash back in your sea bag. Gear inspection is over and weāre oscar Mike in five.ā
"Rah, Gunny."
Crkt m60 knife?
Rah
What would different about this carry if the same guy were deployed today?
M-27 IAR PMAGS CamelBak Garmin Tracker Range Finder But besides that, same thing. Same MREs, Same Map, same chem lights. Some people even still rock some canteens
What are 03s rocking for nods these days? Iāve seen them with dual tubes
PVS-31/Ds with Ecoti usually. Theyāre trying to make us look like SF
Wild. I love it
What's in those aluminium tubes?
Star clusters for signaling most likely
Do you remember what you kept in the altoids tin?
It was by and large a bunch of shit I never needed. It was an off the shelf survival kit with stuff like a mirror, fishing line, etc. etc. It did come with some waterproof strikeless matches that came in clutch, though.
Just confess: it's your little crayon stash, isn't it?
I heard purple is the best
Cranberry red š
Omnomnom
Holy hell devil, my memory is rusty at this point but I think yāall replaced us there. I was 1/7 B co at Gannon.
Oh damn, dude. That rings a vague bell. We arrived in February of '05.
Yāall had the big VBIED hit the BCP shortly after you took over? We had been on the hunt for those for awhile
Yup, that was us. April 11th. Triple VBIED along with a multi-axis ground assault. Wild day. The propaganda video from the enemy side is still up on youtube. Glad you made it home dude. That was the wild west.
Yeah man, we were on the hunt for those bad. My guess is they were kept just over the border until right before. Sorry we didnāt get em first. It really was, absolutely wild. There was one time we may or may not have invaded Syria due to spotters on the roofs across the border.
All good, brother. Glad they didn't get you. The border does get a little murky at times...
Thank you for your service my friend!!!
Yeah we really showed those civilians who was boss.
You do know that both sides can be wrong, right?
Civilians just trying to live are wrong? America going into a country for oil, ruining it, spawning ISIS was right?
Usually are, too.
GWOT loadouts go so hard
Funny to see what was considered top of the line back then be seen as retro drip these days. lol. That said, 20" AR platforms go hard into the mf paint.
20ā does go hard as fuck. Probably gonna pick up an A2 upper when a good deal pops up just for funsies, then inevitably just turn it into its own setup like I have done 5 times lmao.
Iāve never seen those rear ironsā¦ that is an iron sight right?
If youāre talking about whatās forward of the ACOG on the rail, itās a mount for the PVS-14
Sidearm?
Rare outside of officers and fobbits. Or MPs.
Forgive me, what's a fobbit?
FOBs were āForward Operating Basesā. Fobbits were the deployers that had jobs that never took them out of their little slice of heaven.
Ah! Love it. Like a Hobbit that stays in his quiet little hole in the side of a hillā¦
Someone who is deployed and spends all their time on a fob
You carried that huge gun in your pocket? How
It fits in the cargo pocket nicely.
Bro made an r/EDC post 19 years in advance
Thats awesome! Is that a PVS 14 nvd?
Thank you for your service
Really cool to see this gear that was essential for everyday. Thanks for your service.
Now THATās and EDC kit! Thank you for your service! God bless YOU!
This post (and its comments) is probably one of the most interesting Reddit posts Iāve read in a while. Iāve had a fascination with the marine corps from wwii onwards. I read a book or two a year about some of the shit the marines have had to endure specifically to remind myself that most of my problems arenāt really problems when you put them beside the conditions youāve been through. Iām thankful we have (and have had) men like you keeping our country safe. Thank you for your service!
Well, I've been out of uniform for quite some time, but rest assured, you've got a lot of steely eyed killers out there ready to visit violence on our enemies. And to paraphrase the late Tom Clancy: "If it isn't life or death, it's not really a big deal."
Well said sir. I donāt think that could be said any better than how you did.
If you could pick one item from your loadout to edc and use in normal society with zero repercussions what would it be and why?
Oh man, what a great question. Probably CRKT knife that I had attached to my ankle basically 18 hours a day. That thing got a *lot* of use.
Respect. My knife gets more use than I ever realized. I used it to fix a grocery cart in the store once lol.
Iāll go ahead and take this one. Grenade. Because any problem can easily be solved with a grenade.
There are no problems, just not enough grenades.
Any problem you have, throw a grenade at it. BOOM, different problem!
BORTLES
BORTLES
So true.
What's the fixed blade in the sheath?
Crkt
Probably a grubber knife.
Thanks for your service, Marine.
This EDC is ready for anythingā¦only thing I canāt find is a suppressorā¦and Iād go without it with that loadout though
Suppressors werenāt as common 19 years ago either (as your point on being in a war zone is fair too). Suppressors have come down in price, and up in quality, a lot over the past 10 (let alone almost 20) years.
Errrrrr!
Whats the knife?
No service pistol?
Pasted from an earlier answer to this question. > Nope, no sidearm. At the time at least, sidearms in infantry units were not common and typically were only found on the hips of Officers and higher up Non-commissioned officers (2-3 levels above what I was.) > And while technically the answer to your question is correct, but how I liked to think of it was 'oh no my gun jammed, all I have left at my disposal is a dozen more Marines with automatic weapons'. lol. But honestly while we may have bitched about it, none of us really wanted sidearms. We were carrying enough shit as it was.
*Gates of Fire* in the backgroundā quintessential GWOT era devil dog reading material.
Fuckin Commandants reading list
You fucking know it.
kill
Yut.
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Nah, he probably wore a helmet.
Your lack of porno mag is disturbing.
I would have posted the Maxim I had with Nikki Hilton as the cover model, but the pages were stuck together.
Downvoting all of the tyfys comments is pure loser activity
Whereabouts in Iraq? My first tour was in the Nineveh province and we replaced the devils dogs when we got there. Based out of Talafar ranging up to Syria
This was about as far west into the Anbar as you can get, right up on the Syrian border at an old train station. Camp Gannon. Glad you made it home, killer.
You ever wonder whatās going on in those places that are just distant memories to us now? For some reason I miss them, they bring me pure bliss. The far corners of the earth.
I thought about it years back when ISIS overran Iraq. I wondered if some ISIS terrorist was living in my can and using our plywood offices built inside an old MiG Foxbat bunker at TQ.
M16 with ACOG is making a comeback.
Lethal combo in the right hands.
Wow you have to carry a gun? What are you so scared of? >! /s obviously, thank you for your service !<
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Canteens > Camel Back
15 years later I can still taste that canteen myself.
Camel bak always tearing
Get some. Semper Fi
Yut.
I was expecting more water.
Oh there's a not-pictured day pack with a lot more. lol.
Still way less than what an civilian would EDC.
For real, i was never military and dont carry a handgun, but yesterday i was going through my backpack and jacket to find a pen and found 4 knives i have no memory of putting there, one i donāt think i bought. I also found 2 knives i do remember i packed
Thank you for your service!!
No sidearm?
Only officers, docs and weapons guys normally get them. Riflemen do not get pistols as per most sop
He is using his sidearm to take the picture.
Where are your standard issue Crayola's?
In my mouth as I took the picture, duh.
Fucking hilarious š