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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2010 2:26:55 GMT
Now I want to see who'se going to argue with you on that one, Liam... Not me. Been conked on the head too many darn times not to say thats reeeeeal effective!!! Hahahaha
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2010 2:28:57 GMT
Same here unfortunately I've taken more punches on the button that I want to admit.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2010 2:32:03 GMT
And yet, we're still here to talk about it, eh? Probably wouldn't if it had been a slug from a Springfield...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2010 2:33:56 GMT
Same here, got lots of big bad bruises during sparring in my Kali class. Nothing to the head thanks to the masks I wear... Just saying a good swing with a blunt weapon straight to the head is a good way to end a fight.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2010 2:36:11 GMT
.... I just remember I had found ways to maneuver around in an M88 tracked recovery vehicle without much trouble with an M240 (that's the M16 with the under-barrel grenade launcher) without much trouble. I realize that it is WAY beyond my time, but isn´t M240 also the designation for a machinegun. My guess is that most infantrymen kept close guard of their rifles as they were the MOST useful weapon to them. Even useful in trench fighting. For raiding, or as back-up, yeah clubs, pistols, knives, sand filled socks, ect, would certainly come in handy at times. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M240_machine_gun
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2010 2:41:42 GMT
Yeah, but I didn't get to carry the fun one just this:
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2010 2:46:44 GMT
.... I just remember I had found ways to maneuver around in an M88 tracked recovery vehicle without much trouble with an M240 (that's the M16 with the under-barrel grenade launcher) without much trouble. I realize that it is WAY beyond my time, but isn´t M240 also the designation for a machinegun. My guess is that most infantrymen kept close guard of their rifles as they were the MOST useful weapon to them. Even useful in a trench fighting. For raiding, or as back-up, yeah clubs, pistols, knives, sand filled socks, ect, would certainly come in handy at times. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M240_machine_gunAgreed. In all accounts that I read of trench fighting, soldiers carried their rifle with them from one trench to another, it was a more versatile weapon than a knife or club. Melee weapons were used in very specific cases, like trench raiders looking for a quiet way to dispose of guards and desperate defenders who ran out of ammo. Edit : Funniest thing to me is, I am sure the clubs from the OP wouldn't have looked out of place on a battlefield from many, many centuries earlier.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2010 2:49:08 GMT
Oh....OK. I had just thought of that as an M-16 with the M203 grenade launcher attached. I hadn´t realized that the combo is designated as M240. Like I said, this is after my time.
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Post by Avery on Aug 7, 2010 2:51:03 GMT
Lol, Greybeard you get a karma for calling out the obvious. Remember, it all comes down to man in the fight, and how much fight the man has in him.
My purpose for this thread was to show how a basic, stoneage implements continue to be used in modern warfare. I say modern simply because even now, in the most civilized of places, humankind will create simple tools and use age-old tatics to fight. as early as the 1900's men armed with the most modern weapons still regressed( or remembered, pending on the arguement) to using efficient and trusted tools for the dirty work.
How far do we as a race really think we've come?
Edit, don't answer that, it was rhetorical.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2010 3:20:19 GMT
Thanks, Avery.
Somebody famous said "the third World War will be fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth with clubs"...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2010 3:24:43 GMT
Thanks, Avery. Somebody famous said "the third World War will be fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth with clubs"... In the version I read, the guy (Einstein, I think) said that he doesn't know with what WWIII would be waged, but that WWIV would be waged with sticks
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2010 19:44:23 GMT
That's getting to be many years ago at this point. But pulling all those tankers out of mud-puddles way back when had it's entertaining moments.
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