The Marines are amazing at just how much life they get out of equipment (probably because they’re always underfunded). I swear you could send an MEU ashore with Sopwith Camels, 1903 Springfields, and Krag-Jorgensens, and they’d still kick every ass in sight.
I always wonder if the engineers who design things like the original Huey and Cobra ever imagined “their” designs would still be in active service long after they retired?
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Inn the early 80's I qualified with a Viet Nam era M-16A1 and a WWII vintage 1911.
I swear you could send an MEU ashore with Sopwith Camels, 1903 Springfields, and Krag-Jorgensens, and they’d still kick every ass in sight.
Damn straight. Semper Fi.
“The Marines are amazing at just how much life they get out of equipment (probably because they’re always underfunded). I swear you could send an MEU ashore with Sopwith Camels, 1903 Springfields, and Krag-Jorgensens, and they’d still kick every ass in sight.
I always wonder if the engineers who design things like the original Huey and Cobra ever imagined “their” designs would still be in active service long after they retired?”
My son flies a CH-46E “Phrog” out of Camp Pendleton. He tells me that he is not only flying the same TYPE of aircraft flown by the Corps in the late 70’s, he is actually flying the SAME aircraft that they used in the 70’s!