Gunsplaining to conservatives

[flamin lib]

5. All branches except ship board Navy which

Used AR15s unless they've adopted the M4.

Ships are made of steel with long companionways. A 10 round burst aboard ship could be, well, exciting.

All three of the M16s I was issued were selective auto. Funny story, we qualified annually and were instructed to select single fire. Buddy system, one score one shoot. 100 m target pops up and the Cpl in the fighting hole breaks out a smoke and lights it. 75 m pops up and he just takes another drag. 50 m pops up and he drops the cigarette and flips the selector lever from safe to auto. 25 m pops up and he blows the target apart. Range officer runs over and starts yelling about single fire. Cpl says, " Sir, I have one week left in this man's army and where I just got back from that guy at a hundred yards out not likely to hurt ya but that fucker at 30 feet's about to do you some dirt. " Range officer took the clip board from me and scored him Expert.

I didn't serve in country--only action I saw was on the streets of D.C.