The only time that it make sense to destroy ammunition is when the enemy is about to overrun your position.
Bullets can be pulled and reused and brass cases can be inspected and reused 10-20 times. There are millions of civilians that would be happy to purchase the mil surp ammo as reloading stock for a fair price. But that would be providing aid and comfort to the enemy as far as Obama and Co. is concerned so they opt to scrap it.
“The only time that it make sense to destroy ammunition is when the enemy is about to overrun your position.”
They never taught that little tidbit in the USMC. Never once heard that one. They were more of the school of thought that one should be going cyclic, towards the bad guys.
And that the slacker destroying our own ammo should be up there shooting too.
Maybe that’s what the PTB believes...
That I breathe my las'
Then by God I pray
That I may pass
In a big pile of hot brass.
There shouldn't be "surplus ammo" in a firefight. And if there is, you ain't fighting hard enough. I've ran out, but I've never had too much.
“The only time that it make sense to destroy ammunition is when the enemy is about to overrun your position.”
The Japanese didn’t do that during the “Island Hopping” campaign in WWll. My Uncle told me stories of taking an island, and using the stuff the Japanese left behind to attack the next island. He said they’d fire the machine guns until the barrels warped, and then just grab another and continue. The Japanese would only drain the hydraulic fluid from artillery pieces, figuring that would disable them. They forgot about good old Yankee ingenuity! My Uncle and his fellow soldiers would hook up heavy ropes to the pieces, and fasten the other end to Jeeps. The Jeeps took care of the recoil!
not even then, keep unloading into them until it’s all expended:)