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Old July 20th 04, 04:18 AM
Fred the Red Shirt
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Mike Williamson wrote in message ...
robert arndt wrote:


Nothing, just proving you wrong again. YOU said the US soldiers
WEREN'T swapping out/using AK-47s in combat in Iraq. You asked me to
prove it and I did.


According to the article, they aren't swapping out. Troops
are authorized to use AK-47s primarily because as armored troops
they aren't issued M-16/M-4s to every troop.


Yeah it would seem that properly arming them for their new
asignments came as an afterthought to the DOD.

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