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See, and here I was thinking that the special forces guys could do whatever they wanted to.
I am no weapons SME, but this strikes me as a "walk before you run" issue. Of course you don't want to see guys putting crap on their weapons during BMQ. IMO they should be on the range with iron sights and once they can get a good grouping at 400 m, then start with optics and such. Good shooting is what it is. All the gizmo's and crap won't make a bad shooter better.
I also imagine that when they are playing "make a new friend" in the Sandbox or wherever, the SOF types do whatever they want anyway. Kind of like your daughter on the way to school. Once she is out the door in the outfit you laid out for her, she whips out the one she will actually wear once she gets to school. As long as mom and dad don't see it, she's okay.
What I infer from I-6's post is that it would be nice if guys that are putting their lives out there in stickier-than-normal situations didn't have to go out of pocket for top shelf equipment to do their jobs better. You don't buy your 16 year old a Le Mans race car. But once they show that they can handle it, you let up the hammer.
Would it be possible to create a course at one of the Battle schools, whereby high end snipers and SOF types could take a course in upgrades? Call it something like "Advanced Weapon Modifications for Special Operatives". Have some weapons techs, JTF leaders, senior snipers etc all get together, go over a bunch of stuff and put together a seminar/course. Then, have guys come and be familiarized with a variety of kit and how it best suits them and how it affects their performance. Once qualified, if you are going into an actual theatre of operations, you could submit a request to be compensated for an approved kit list of special upgrades as long as you could justify it. I would think word would get around about what the best combinations of barrels/optics/munitions/mag systems etc. to everyone, and pretty quick it would look pretty much like a standard kit list. Then, when new things came out on the market, you would have your best and brightest testing it in an actual combat situation, and thereby making all of us a bit more effective and safe.
Just a thought.
Zipperhead_novice
I am no weapons SME, but this strikes me as a "walk before you run" issue. Of course you don't want to see guys putting crap on their weapons during BMQ. IMO they should be on the range with iron sights and once they can get a good grouping at 400 m, then start with optics and such. Good shooting is what it is. All the gizmo's and crap won't make a bad shooter better.
I also imagine that when they are playing "make a new friend" in the Sandbox or wherever, the SOF types do whatever they want anyway. Kind of like your daughter on the way to school. Once she is out the door in the outfit you laid out for her, she whips out the one she will actually wear once she gets to school. As long as mom and dad don't see it, she's okay.
What I infer from I-6's post is that it would be nice if guys that are putting their lives out there in stickier-than-normal situations didn't have to go out of pocket for top shelf equipment to do their jobs better. You don't buy your 16 year old a Le Mans race car. But once they show that they can handle it, you let up the hammer.
Would it be possible to create a course at one of the Battle schools, whereby high end snipers and SOF types could take a course in upgrades? Call it something like "Advanced Weapon Modifications for Special Operatives". Have some weapons techs, JTF leaders, senior snipers etc all get together, go over a bunch of stuff and put together a seminar/course. Then, have guys come and be familiarized with a variety of kit and how it best suits them and how it affects their performance. Once qualified, if you are going into an actual theatre of operations, you could submit a request to be compensated for an approved kit list of special upgrades as long as you could justify it. I would think word would get around about what the best combinations of barrels/optics/munitions/mag systems etc. to everyone, and pretty quick it would look pretty much like a standard kit list. Then, when new things came out on the market, you would have your best and brightest testing it in an actual combat situation, and thereby making all of us a bit more effective and safe.
Just a thought.
Zipperhead_novice
