[url=http://www.blastwave-comic.com/index.php?p=comic&nro=21]^Me and shelton see a negligent discharge waiting to happen.[/url]

[quote=KOKO]
I just read your post more carefully. As i said the army has a colossal amount of weapons and ammunition, risking soilders to get back 2 small guns sounds stupid. Plus there are many reasons why communication with Fort Lewis might have failed!
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You noticed that the last sentance agreed with you all along?*
-Kinda makes your rage-post look a bit spastic.

*It isn't sending soldiers *back* to retrieve missing kit, it's to grab anything and everything useful for the mission (namely, ammo, mags, belts, better weapons, anything that counts as a "force-multiplier" [which they pretty much did, meaning the survivoring (ten?) soldiers are likely lugging their own personal radios and GPS by now, and still retaining their full platoon's allotment of machine-guns and C-mags]) before they GTFO of the killzone. The entire 'bug-out bag' principle.

And like a bug-out bag, it's more a list of priorities of things you [i]really[/i] want to keep with you. You can usually survive without it, maybe even get a replacement, but the loss of a man sucks a big one, loss of a man and all his shit is a pretty catastophic loss in some cases. As I said, shit sometimes REALLY gets that bad, in which the grunts have to pray for a quick resupply/evac, [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQsGHslcZzo]and the spec-ops just crank the pucker-factor up to eleven[/url].