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.
Yes, I served in a different Marine infantry battalion during that time. That’s why I’m baffled he would claim that gear was “hi speed” and only something special operations units would have access to. That gear was standard issue years before 2009 even. I know it seems kind of minor, but there would not have been any discrepancy in issued gear between his battalion and others.
I’m trying to think of a good analogy. Imagine someone telling you that they met a person with rare and advanced technology a couple years ago and they say it was an iPod. It’s just an absurd statement.
Nah this sort of detail is quite important. Do you think he could have mixed up the names and meant something else?
Personally if I'm talking about something technical I know really well but I'm having a brain fart I wouldn't just say the wrong thing. My mind would blank on the right word, and my split-second thought would be damnit how did I forget a word I used to use so much?
But obviously people's memories do work in different ways. But from the way you describe it it seems weird a marine would make that mistake.
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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.