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- From: petekunz@iiic.ethz.ch (Peter John Kunz)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: How much ammo does the footsoldier carry?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.155847.20793@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 04:15:25 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
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- In article <1993Jan26.184945.14910@Csli.Stanford.EDU> cower@csli.stanford.edu (Richard Cower) writes:
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- #How much ammo does the Army footsoldier take with him/her (?) these days?
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- hearsay about infantry boot camp in switzerland:
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- get 1000 rds
- march for 10 kms
- shoot 100 rds
- march again
- give back 900 rds
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- from personal experience in communicatiosn bootcamp and one 'tour'
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- none
- 6 rds on guard duty
- they handit to you before you go to the range and collect excess after you
- leave (ok, so we're not at war...)
- there was a motion a few years back trying to force the army not to use
- live ammo in service during non war times, except for shooting practice,ie
- no guarding wiht live ammo
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- #How quickly can they get more? Does the amount being carried vary depending
- #on the branch of service (ie...does the Marine carry more/less?)? I can
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- i would hope so. imagine a pilto lugging along tons of 'personal' ammo :-)
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