Ya know, it’s a neat little pistol and I’m happy they picked it, but like the M9, it’s just going to get beaten to death and hardly ever fired (other than by staff NCOs and officers that want that cute marksmanship badge to balance out the rifle one.
That’s true for most military gear, Heath. And depending on who our “allies” are in future conflicts, it’s always useful to have a sidearm when they have an ‘aloha-snackbar’ outburst at the HQ.
You are missing the largest group to carry pistols in the Army. Every tank crewmember carries one as his weapon, as well as many machine gun operators.
December 16th, 2017 at 12:05 am
Ya know, it’s a neat little pistol and I’m happy they picked it, but like the M9, it’s just going to get beaten to death and hardly ever fired (other than by staff NCOs and officers that want that cute marksmanship badge to balance out the rifle one.
December 16th, 2017 at 6:54 am
That’s true for most military gear, Heath. And depending on who our “allies” are in future conflicts, it’s always useful to have a sidearm when they have an ‘aloha-snackbar’ outburst at the HQ.
December 18th, 2017 at 3:04 pm
You are missing the largest group to carry pistols in the Army. Every tank crewmember carries one as his weapon, as well as many machine gun operators.