I was gonna say, less than three boxes of ammunition? Sounds like what a soldier would use in about 10 minutes in the Battle of Mogadishu.
I've always wondered how much ammo a soldier goes through, and how much it takes to keep say, a platoon resupplied in a combat zone.
Most Marines in my time, 86-97, carried 7, 30 round magazines (1 in the weapon and 3 in each of 2 magazine puches) that would be a total of 210 rounds. Most guys I knew carried enough to refill each one at least once.
The frontline, in the deep doo-doo, troops carry a helluva lot more than that. Multiply that by an avg. of 13 guys to a squad x 3-4 squads per platoon and that equals a sh*tload of ammo, and that's just the M-16's we're not even counting the SAWs, M240s, etc.
The dipsh*t in the report does not have a clue.
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