[denydenydeny]

There's a story in one of David Hackworth's books where his troops in the Mekong Delta were reconfiguring a firebase.

The engineers were moving a berm around with bulldozers, and out rolled the body of a dead VC that had been entombed in the berm when the firebase was first built six months before. The corpse still held his AK.

Hackworth pulled the weapon off the body and fired off a round.

The success of the AK, especially in jungle and desert environments, is its ability to be filthy with grit and mud, and yet still functional.

[SauronOfMordor]

The success of the AK, especially in jungle and desert environments, is its ability to be filthy with grit and mud, and yet still functional.

That's a big consideration in the Iraq region, from what I hear. The dust is fine-grained and gets into everything. I've heard of troops that clean their rifles and put them into plastic dry-cleaner bags to keep the sand out until actually needed

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"Hackworth pulled the weapon off the body and fired off a round."

I would hope the late Hack cleared the barrel before he fired of a round from a weapon that had been buried directly in good old Vietnamese soil.

Michael Frazier