Mike Brewer

This might be a good idea. It's a basic M4 frame, setup, and configuration, meaning it can accept all laser and light mounts. In fact, it works exactly like the current M4. The idea of this test was "Could we manage to sneak into an active firebase and knock all the people in there out with standard 5.56 rounds. Do it well, and maybe the Ary will switch to something better, like the 6.8 that we've been begging for.

We had to insert slowly, via pickup truck. We had already took the paistaking care to unplug or disconnect anything that might light up, from the bulbs in the glove box to the overhead bulb and even the little ones on the outside edges of the doors. Just so we didn't make extra noise, we'd rolled the windows down full and we're planning on exfil through the windows. In a dry run, we'd gotten the whole stop-the-truck-and-exit, retrieve gear from the pickup bed, strap on, and provide 360 degrees of cover, and conduct your own PCI (pre-combat inspections) doown to a workable 20 seconds. When we let the engine cool and the shuffle of the occasional clothing adjustment get settled in. Before long, the animal noises had been returning. We were back on deck. It was important that we walk queitly and not give away our poition. We were in Indian country here, inside a mile from our final objective, and we could aready hear the louder ones taling from time to time. Silense - Absolute silence - was golden. I turned to reiterate the need for silence. I put a hand on my partner's shoulder to whisper in his ear. Must've been an uncomfortable proposition, because something went :

BAAOOMMM

Then it went:

weeeeeeeeeeeeahahweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeahahahahwwhhhwwweeeee

From way down inside my ear. This is the common tinnitus one experiences when he's just had a rifle discharged without warning near his head in a completley silent woodline. The flash of such an event is not insignificant, and it makes your eyes go goofball for a minute or two. When these imminently inconvenient symptoms managed to clear, we're left with the old fashied do or die choice. Bad guys already know we're here, and they know right where we are. We're cammoed up, so we might be hard to find, but it's just a matter of time before someone we were hunting steps on us or worse, steals the truck.

"So," I says. "You loaded?" We'd want the weapon to work before we went any further. " Are you perforated?" "Nope. Same holes I came in with." "So what does that tell us?"

"Tells us the safety? It's 'up.'"

Alright class: What happened next? Get creative, because these are real life events that played out and I can provide dependable first hand accounts later on, if you guys stay on track.

OldSchool CO

Well the infil is obviously totally shot (no pun intended). Probably time to pack up and get out of Dodge...but I'm not ready to concede just yet. Maybe play it out as a false insert, load one guy to move the vehicle and leave the team inbound from the present locale. Of course it should be the discharge guy who gets to move the truck, draw more attention to themselves and end up off the island....post mission this guy needs a reassign or retrain? Only retrain as a last resort though, who can afford those liabilities on future missions???

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