8 Apr 02

On bullet performance from a friend in the Royal Marines:

"At all extended ranges, a hit from a 7.62 was required to permanently anchor Argentinean soldiers. The concept of merely ‘wounding' the enemy, so as to manufacture a logistics burden for them, only works if the enemy is especially worried about treating their wounded. Our logic was thus flawed, because we assumed the enemy would be operating under the same set of morals we were. Always a foolish mistake!

Our recon troops thus quickly swapped their issue M-16s for FALs and immediately put them to good use."

Lesson: We all need to worry less about "the rules" and more about playing with our grandchildren.

/John