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Blackvegetable » 05 Jun 2025, 12:44 pm » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2025, 12:44 pm

*Huey » 05 Jun 2025, 12:42 pm » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2025, 12:42 pm

Last I checked you are participating on this thread.  You always lie by omission.

I don't care about your invented excuse, I'm trying to suss the logic of your suffocating hypocrisy...

 

Gulf War, 1991. A Marine officer reported that "several Marines commented that they had to shoot Iraqi soldiers 2-3 or more times with the 62-grain 5.56mm green tip ammo before they stopped firing back at them.... An Iraqi officer, still on fire, faced the firing line of Marines and charged forward firing his weapon from the hip. He didn't hit anyone, but two Marines each nailed him with a three-- round burst from their M-16A2s. One burst hit him immediately above his heart, the other in his belly button. [He] ... kept right on charging and firing until his magazine was empty.... The surgeons told me he certainly died of burns, but not necessary from the six 5.56-mm wounds."Somalia, 1993. Army Sergeant First Class Paul Howe, a Delta Force soldier, noted that the 5.56-mm green-tip round made a small clean hole and passed right through the enemy. Unless it happened to hit the heart or spine, it was not enough to stop a man in his tracks. "Howe felt like he had to hit a guy five or six times just to get his attention."
 Afghanistan, 2002. A soldier who preferred to remain anonymous e-mailed the following account to me in April 2002: "The current-issue 62-grain 5.56-mm (.223) round, especially when fired from the short-barreled, M-4 carbine, is proving itself (once again) to be woefully inadequate as [a] man stopper. Engagements at all ranges are requiring multiple, solid hits to permanently bring down enemy soldiers. Penetration is also sadly deficient. Even light barriers are not perforated by this rifle and cartridge combination."

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