If there is going to be the 1 out of 1,000 that has an issue, I will be the Charlie Brown who has it. 
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Respect Marine! The best salute that I could find to throw you.
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Mucho TNX!
Brooklyn Spanglish:
Mucho Grassy Ass.
When I switch from Active Duty to Reserves we had guys from every branch of our uniformed armed forces (DoD). Hands down the best ones I had the pleasure of working with were always the Marines. Some even made Sergeant Major. Being a Medical unit we had every speciality and rank.
A lot of guys that were enlisted medic with Field Fleet Marines like âIâ Corps in Vietnam Nam right up at the DMZ on return to state side with the GI Bill got Commissioned Officers on joining the Army Reserves, those âMustangsâ were the best, I learned a lot from them. Especially, force multipliers on perimeter defenses being a Combat Support Hospital we were close enough to the forward edge of the battlefield (FEBF) to be more help to the wounded warriors, and close enough to be overrun by enemy breakthrough forces. One Clonal OIC I had was a Navy Hospital Corpsman who had served with FFM in I Corps had been awarded a Silver Star under fire. He was our Security Force RAP Rear Area Protection - Rapid Action Platoon OIC, Col. O-6, I was his NCIC, Platoon Sargent, E-7. We placed Claymore Mines around our perimeter defense line to prevent getting over run. Since we were colocated with a helicopter pad and a landing strip to fly casualties in and out we had access to their (Av-fuel) aviation fuel. He tough me about making Fu-Gas bladders with laundry detergent flakes mixed in to make it sticky and place in front of the Claymores as a force multiplier to
maximize thanking out a superior strength overrunning force from breaching our compound.
Yeah, great respect for having that talent for a resource to rely on.
We got along just fine with his experience dealing with the NVA, and VC.
I felt a lot more confident about making in home with him onboard.
I hate typos NCOIC and Foo-gas⊠two fat thumbs on a tiny keyboard get me every time.
This video is one of many that demonstrates what Iâve heard about it. The overwhelming majority of the complaints are from LEOs. And in a lot, if not all of those cases, thereâs a big impact on their career if they have a ND. So whatâs their response? âIt wasnât my fault. The gun just went off on its own.â Dig a little deeper and you find a crappy holster that doesnât cover the trigger or that the gun wasnât inserted into the holster properly, finger on the trigger, clothing on the trigger, etc.
I recently heard about a civilian incident at Gunsite Academy where the guy forgot to swap his magazine before stepping away from the firing line. So he tried to swap magazines while in the holster and claimed he never pulled it out of the holster. When they asked him to demonstrate it again, he kept pulling it out of the holster to get to the mag release and his trigger finger kept going to toward the trigger. But once that reputation gets out there, it makes it easier for other people to blame the gun rather than actual negligence. I was just at training this weekend and the instructor made a joke about, âAnyone with a Sig 320, be VERRRRRYYYY gentle with itâŠâ, yadda, yaddaâŠ
Having said that, I was looking into how the M18 works, and Sig has some great videos out there on the 320 FCU where they try to force it to fire without pressing the trigger. They couldnât do it, even with all the internal parts exposed, poking, prying, etc. And in the case of the M18, with the safety on, you can push that trigger to the point of breaking internal parts and it wonât fire. Personally, Iâd be very comfortable carrying an M18 (with a round in the chamber, of course).
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