They gave the Air Force rifles!
30 Jan 2006
Check out The Officers’ Club pic of the day.
I mean, do they only give each guy one round, or something?
(NOTE: Yes, I’m totally full of it.)
They gave the Air Force rifles!
30 Jan 2006
Check out The Officers’ Club pic of the day.
I mean, do they only give each guy one round, or something?
(NOTE: Yes, I’m totally full of it.)
January 30th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Hot Dang. Lookat this the .45 is comin back and the M9 is goin the way of all the other pistols that shoot that round invented by dead Germans. http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htweap/articles/20060127.aspx Now if we can just get rid of that danged poodle shooter and get a rifle. No wait better yet … leave the Air Force armed with it. Give everyone else rifles. After all the Air Force developed the AR-15. MacNamara thought they were so neat everyone should have one. I think just to get even the grunts should develop the next bomber the Air Force has to use.
January 30th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
Anyone care to say whether these SPs are Ravens?
January 30th, 2006 at 7:12 pm
US Air Force Airborne Infantry All the zoomies at Kandahar pack heat, mostly M-16A2’s. Can’t get in the DFAC without your piece.
January 30th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
If these guys are the aircraft security, who placed the covers on the probes? You can see the probes on the nose of the aircraft just under the windows and in front of the numbers. It also looks as if the props have been moved to the on deck position (this helps keep stuff out of the intakes just to the rear of the props).
January 30th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
real’ airforce men don’t use rifles. (Aside from using them as a tomato vine guide.)If we have a problem that requires rifles – that is what the army is used for. Besides you know carring a rifle can cause back strain?? (Yes I am mocking – but 26 years in the airforce – I only dimly remember firing a M14 in basic.)
January 31st, 2006 at 2:37 am
Better they carry M-16’s than individual 30mm GAU-8 rotary cannons!
January 31st, 2006 at 9:59 am
Nice mental image Toejam. Now I vote for GAU-8’s. I want to see that.
January 31st, 2006 at 11:33 am
If that Israeli nano armor pans out, we can use all the weight saved to issue those over-heavy OICW’s, with the 20mm smart grenades and what not. Maybe replace the underslung mini-hk with something cooler, like a metalstorm pack. That’ll show em. Or maybe lasers. Or uavs with lasers…
January 31st, 2006 at 12:13 pm
You go buckethead. I myself prefer the ever-so-popular, never-to-be-denied Interplanitary Nucleonic Blasters. BTW in this month’s Popular Mechanics they detain the new rifle. It comes in light(5.56 in case poodles attack) and heavy (7.62 in case something bigger attacks). No mention of 6.8, 6.5 etc. It even mentions deployment. Kinda looks like an H&K to me, can’t tell. Does have a gas cylinder, that much I like too.