To: lelio
Apparently it was sand, but those maintenance battalions were not instructed properly on the maintenance of their weapons.
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11/06/2003 7:58:20 PM PST by
mrustow
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To: mrustow
Every company has an armorer that is responsible for maintaining weapons. Maintenance company armorers are not trained any better or worse than any other.
To: mrustow
Apparently it was sand, but those maintenance battalions were not instructed properly on the maintenance of their weapons.
They went through Basic Training didn't they? I went through Parris Island many years ago, but if you stuck an M-14 in my face today I could still field strip it for cleaning.
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