Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Brandon Herrera"
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@SlavicCelery Yup. You will not find a bigger 6.5 Grendel proponent than me, and there just isn’t much of a comparison between 6.8x51 NGSW and 6.5 Grendel. The velocity from a 13” NGSW smokes a 24” 6.5 Creedmoor, and is about where a 22”-24” .270 Winchester is pushing 135gr SMK. I know because I load the 135gr SMK in .270 Win and have gotten into the 2850fps region with H4831SC.
6.8x51 NGSW with the High Performance load is spitting a 135gr EPR at 2900fps from a 13” barrel. That’s screaming velocity. It will make a great little DM Carbine, suppressed, with the optic.
Same for the M250 AR in 6.8x51, though the ammo load will get heavier/bulkier like a Mk.48 gunner. The M250 weighs a lot less than a SAW though. Experienced NCOs are going to love that thing.
The XM7 is too much for most of the Infantry Rifle Platoon though. One way around the problem is to equip 3rd Squad with it, and keep 5.56 NATO in 1st and 2nd Squads. Make 3rd Squad the DM/Overwatch/Support Squad, who can act in reserve and plug-into the fight where they are best used for precision fires and fire support/overwatch.
Let 1st and 2nd Squads do the maneuvering up front, with first bounds or flanks. 3rd Squad can also co-located with Weapons Squad for Support By Fire, be the Support and Security Elements in Deliberate Attacks, and undergo periodic Designated Marksman training with a formal MTO&E and ARTEP program. Start it in OSUT and the NCOPD courses so every Squad has DM-trained soldiers and NCOs no matter what.
Everyone else gets M4A1s that are upgraded on the SOPMOD Block increment program. Many duty positions in the line need an even smaller, shorter weapon than the 14.5” M4, so there should be a lot of 11.5” guns in the Line Platoon and especially the Company and Battalion.
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@0neDoomedSpaceMarine The M250 weighs far less than a SAW, and even though the cartridge generates far more kinetic energy, perceived recoil is way less than a SAW due to the recoiling barrel.
The SAW has always been too heavy for a 5.56 LMG, chambered in too weak of a cartridge. The 6mm SAW of the 1970s would have been far superior.
6.8x51 linked ammunition weighs less than 7.62 NATO, but more than linked 5.56x45. Everyone that has put hands-on with the M250 really likes it.
The SAW can't fill in for a Rifleman since there is no way to single shot its open bolt and simple sear fire control mechanism. (Former 11B, Rifleman, Grenadier, SAW Gunner, RTO, Fire Team Leader, Scout/Observer, Scout/Sniper, Asst Recon TM LDR, Rifle Squad Leader, Weapons Squad Leader here)
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@dannykeuerleber7419 Oswald never received any commendations for his crappy shooting scores, not in Basic and not in his unit. His scores went from 212 to 191 during his short time in the Marines. Other Marines in his unit said he didn’t take their rifle training seriously, and didn’t seem to care.
In USMC or Army Basic Training, the terms “Expert, Sharpshooter, and Marskman” mean nothing of the kind. Here’s how we really think of those terms in the military precision rifle and sniping community, which I was part of and have practiced since 1994:
220-250 Expert = Cream of the crap, you’re not really good but you followed instructions and/or lucked out with a rifle that shot well
210-219 Sharpshooter = You suck and need to retrain until you score 220 or better.
190-209 Marksman = You really suck and should be smoked, then retrained until you score 220 or better.
A real rifle “expert” trains incessantly for years, even decades. Humility is his or her companion, and they know how hard it is to maintain proficiency with constant practice. Oswald was the opposite of that during his time in the Marines, as well as when he went to a local rifle range and shot another shooter’s target while aiming at his own. There is a funny video about that where they interview the guy whose target he shot.
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@anonymike8280 On one hand, he barely can qualify on the Marine rifle range with a 191 score (190 is minimum). On the other hand, he’s a better shot than Carlos Hathcock and senior USMC Scout Sniper Instructors who could never duplicate his shots. In Belorussia, Marina said she thought he was a native due to his use of local colloquialisms and perfect spoken Russian. In Dallas, he could barely stumble along in childish phrases with a poor accent at the Paine home (Ruth Paine was a Russian language instructor with a terrible accent, which is another strange aspect of the story, given her sister Sylvia working for the CIA at Langley, her husband working for Bell Helicopters, their parents working for OSS or Trotskyite socialist groups in the 1920s-1940s, and George de Mohrenschildt introducing Oswald to the Paines). Ruth got Lee his job at the TSBD, withholding a better-paying job for him that she knew about. George DM was a CIA asset and former OSS agent during the War, came from....Belorussia. Committed suicide before he could be called into the HSCA.
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@anonymike8280 His mom said his favorite TV show was about a spy, before he joined the Civil Air Patrol, where he was a cadet along with Barry Seal. David Ferrie was a Squadron Commander in his Wing, but not his Squadron Commander.
He obtained a hardship discharge to go take care of his sick mother in Louisiana, but instead flew to Finland, surrendered his passport at the embassy, demanded to defect to the Soviet Union, where he promised to share secrets he learned in the military.
At the time, the US had a program for fake defectors who were trained to act like marxists, to gain access to the USSR. Some of that training was done in North Carolina and Virginia.
Oswald worked in an electronics factory in Belorussia, where he met Marine, the niece of a KGB Lieutenant Colonel. After marrying her, they decided to move to the US. He contacted the US Stated Department, who paid for their air travel back to the US.
There is no record of him being detained or questioned upon return to the US, and J. Edgar Hoover even asked the Office of Naval Intelligence and CIA about this in a memo that pre-dates the assassination.
Oswald was also seen with Jack Ruby at Key West Airport before boarding a plane to Cuba, among a group of 40-50 men. Oswald walked over to Ruby and asked him something about someone named “Big Bird”. The man who co-founded the Civil Air Patrol, was nicknamed "Big Byrd" by his friends. He was Texas oilman, David Harold Byrd.
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@oxide9679 The casinos were started and are run by organized crime syndicates who “legitimized” long ago. They will hand over whatever records they have from their cameras if it suits their interests, but they are monstrously more powerful than the ATF. ATF actually are enforcers for organized crime, born out of Prohibition-era enforcers for the big bootleggers like Papa Joe Kennedy. They made an example of Al Capone, then went down to the Ozarks to burn people’s towns to the ground chasing uncle Jesse and Cleatus, instead of going up into New England to shut down Papa Joe’s smuggling networks with the Bronfmans from Canada.
After Prohibition was repealed in 1933 and Papa Joe had already secured the exclusive importation rights to Siegram’s for his family for 90 years, the Alcohol Tax Unit and Prohibition Bureau agents weren’t simply going to be laid off at the height of the Depression. The new bogey men, created by Congress with Prohibition and Depression, were now guys like Dillinger, Bonny & Clyde, Machinegun Kelly, so Alcohol Tax Unit would be reassigned to going after firearms.
The whole thing is a scam.
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@oxide9679 During Prohibition, pretty much every LE Agency, police department, city Council, Mayor, most Congressmen, Senators, etc. were corrupted by the Mob unless they lived in dry counties. None of that was cleaned up in the Depression, where police powers were largely expanded and abused.
America had a distraction from all of that in the 1940s with the War, where everyone was coerced or encouraged to participate collectively in the war effort, which meant any able-bodied young men went into the military or defense industry.
That included untold Mafia enforcers who were then marketed to the War Department as counter-saboteurs to the Germans on East Coast Harbors. Lucky Luciano negotiated his way out of prison with that approach.
America never dealt with the corruption of LE after the war, and was already in a compliance/do your part cultural paradigm coming out of the Great Depression and War, into the expanding boom of the 1950s.
Mafia loved it because they built casinos, gambling halls, coin scams, strip clubs, night clubs etc. all over the Nation, while pimping whores and narcotics for even better profits than during Prohibition.
LE played the game of crushing the little guys who didn’t have politicians paid off to protect their rackets and enjoy fringe benefits. For example, Jacob Rubenstein and his brother were Bureau of Narcotics informants. Jacob ran multiple night clubs in Dallas for the Mafia, while smuggling weapons and narcotics in the Caribbean and inside the US. You probably better know him as Jack Ruby.
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@maxplaysgamesmore8552 When was the last time you did a 12-mile forced march with stress shoots along the way, including extensive CQM stages with a G3? I've been doing this type of training and deployments since 1993. A G3 is a non-starter in this conversation. I'll get it done with one because I'm above average height/strength, but I'll get it done so much better with a lighter weapon and small cartridge-based basic load. None of the battle rifles are good fits in that context, only a few DMRs in select duty positions in the overall mix.
Brits, Norwegians, Swedes, Dutch, Germans, Canadians, Belgians, and Italians all ditched their battle rifles in favor of 5.56 NATO long ago.
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