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Even just using that phrase tells me you were not a grunt.
Never said I was. We really need a /r/justbootthings here on Lemmy. Your military experience doesn't magically make you an expert. Usually it's the opposite.
Lmao. Are you really going to argue that combat experience makes you inexperienced in handling weapons?
Oh boy.
Lmao. I'm not telling you stories. I'm not claiming any greatness. And everyone in the US military has to qualify repeatedly throughout their career. Including machine gunners. Whose qual has a section where they have to put holes in 17 targets on a paper at about 10 meters. And that's just to make sure the gunner and gun are okay before having them shoot pop up targets 400 to 800 meters away.
Which means a qualified gunner can rock your shit at a range from which you probably won't even see them.
Now because I can already hear you saying, "but we're talking about rifles!", the gunner achieves that in the same way a rifleman with a full auto weapon would, by bursting. But there is no full auto rifle qual because they all have selector switches and we're not idiots. There is however burst and full auto familiarization, where you learn the weapon is very controllable as long as you don't mag dump like you're a fucking Call of Duty player.
And oh look it learned about boots and crayons. But I'm not a Marine. I am done here though. You're an idiot, everyone obviously sees that and anyone who didn't can now see why.
I love how you prove what I'm saying is true lol
Holy shit you’re dense.