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[grelmar]

Another good read at the internet archive. I'm sure someone has posted this before, but it's a fun/informative classic that's always worth a revisit.

The M16A1 Rifle: Operation and Preventive Maintenance.



Is it just me, or is that gal a ringer for Hot Lips Houlihan?

 

[points]

Major General Smedley Butler, two time M.O.H. winner, and veteran of virtually every military adventure the US got up between 1898 and 1929, summed it up in the title of his book:

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I wonder why he chose Brigadier General for his byline. He was a Major General, and base commander at Quantico, from 1929 until his retirement in 1931.

He really would know. He was boots on the ground for some of the U.S.'s least honorable endeavors, protecting their interests in the Opium trade during the Boxer Rebellion, a wide range of the "Banana Wars" preserving the fiscal integrity of the United Fruit Company (still around as Chiquita Brands International).

I've read his stuff. Yah. Nothing to do with maintaining world piece. He saw it for what it was.