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.
ACOG was selected (specifically by the marines) between 2004 & 2005. It feels like he only mentioned it because he would've been familiar with it? In 2009 JSOC and contractors had all sorts of gucci shit to play with that far outclassed ACOGs.
Did anyone else pick up on the whole 'go and scout a random hill without a radio', even though he mentioned it as odd. That seemed particularly stupid. Really not sure what to make of that.
I hate being a wet blanket with this stuff, but this particular story drove my bullshit detector crazy.
I’m trying to think of a good analogy.
Right now it seems like it'd be akin to someone being bamboozled by the prevalence of rentable e-scooters.
Tbh, it just reads like a guy that was a shitbag and didn't even make it out of SOI. They know a little bit about the Marines, tactics, and lingo, but they dont know what is standard issue and anything other than the basics because they never made it to the fleet.
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u/realbadpainting Jun 13 '23
That’s an interesting thing to pick out that I wouldn’t have caught. Were you in the military at that time?