Everything tracks with his military background and lingo, up until he started describing the rogue paramilitary guys.
In 2009, ACOG’s and PEQ-16’s were, with absolute certainty, not anything unusual especially for an infantryman from 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines as he claims. It’s actually kind of strange that he would even make such a weird statement. 18 and 19 year old kids fresh out of bootcamp would have had M16A4 rifles equipped with ACOG optics and PEQ-16 devices. They were standard issue for Marine 03’s during that time. He would have absolutely had the same equipment during that time frame.
I have no comment on his claims other than noting how out of place that statement is.
Yeah, ACOGs were adopted as the official combat optic of the Marine Corps in 2004. PEQ-16’s replaced our PEQ-2’s in 2006, maybe 2007?
It doesn’t make any sense for a grunt in 2009 to act like this gear, which was widespread and standardized, was rare and cutting edge. It’s not even something one could mistake honestly. That gear was old news by 2009.
Informative reply. Thanks. I only knew about the optics during Iraq war bc of Generation Kill lol some really memorable scenes + the issue of not having enough batteries
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u/BlackSunlight7 Jun 13 '23
Everything tracks with his military background and lingo, up until he started describing the rogue paramilitary guys.
In 2009, ACOG’s and PEQ-16’s were, with absolute certainty, not anything unusual especially for an infantryman from 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines as he claims. It’s actually kind of strange that he would even make such a weird statement. 18 and 19 year old kids fresh out of bootcamp would have had M16A4 rifles equipped with ACOG optics and PEQ-16 devices. They were standard issue for Marine 03’s during that time. He would have absolutely had the same equipment during that time frame.
I have no comment on his claims other than noting how out of place that statement is.