The Marines always did things correct the first time. The Army stumbled on those pesky problems because our soldiers don't get all the neat training pounded into our head hard enough to stick. You also got the good stuff first < vbg >.

>Wow, we had terrorist attacks at our airfield in Schweinfurt in 1984 and we had live ammo and were locked and loaded. I'm not sure the threat for us was any less real...
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>When I was in a couple of Latin American countries in the late 80s and early 90s (just before Desert Storm) we carried a 9mm with the magazine loaded and one in the chamber. I attended many cock fights that way. No roosters ever attacked me but on more than one occasion a few rebels did...
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