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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1044621" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p>[h=1]Obama Gets Military Tech All Wrong in Debate[/h]</p><p>While the Army discontinued traditional bayonet training in 2010, the USMC still trains Marines with bayonets and issues them as <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/10/22/do-troops-still-use-bayonets/" target="_blank">standard equipment</a>. The Army has also begun training soldiers in a <a href="http://www.stripes.com/blogs/the-rumor-doctor/the-rumor-doctor-1.104348/has-the-army-eliminated-bayonet-training-1.137356" target="_blank">different style</a> of bayonet use--not affixed to the end of a rifle but as a secondary melee weapon. </p><p style="margin-left: 20px"> To make bayonet training relevant again, the Army got rid of the bayonet assault course, in which soldiers fixed a bayonet to the end of a rifle, ran towards a target while yelling and then rammed the bayonet into the target center. Instead, soldiers learn in combatives training how to use a knife or bayonet if someone grabs their primary weapon.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>Some users on Twitter have claimed that, by virtue of the USMC still using bayonets, there actuallyare <em>more </em>bayonets in use than 1916, when the army had between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_Movement#Compromise_reached" target="_blank">100,000</a> and 140,000 enlisted members. As of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" target="_blank">2010</a>, the Corps boasted 203,000 active duty members and 40,000 reserve marines.</p><p> Regarding horses, a statue of a member of the U.S. Special Forces on horseback was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/horse-soldier-near-world-trade-center-afghanistan_n_2000861.html?utm_hp_ref=new-york" target="_blank">just unveiled</a> at Ground Zero in New York City. When our Special Forces invaded Afghanistan post-9/11, many did so <a href="http://www.horsechannel.com/horse-exclusives/fort-bragg-military-horses.aspx" target="_blank">on horseback</a>.</p><p></p><p>All those drones & other toys will never replace boots on the ground .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1044621, member: 12952"] [h=1]Obama Gets Military Tech All Wrong in Debate[/h] While the Army discontinued traditional bayonet training in 2010, the USMC still trains Marines with bayonets and issues them as [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/10/22/do-troops-still-use-bayonets/"]standard equipment[/URL]. The Army has also begun training soldiers in a [URL="http://www.stripes.com/blogs/the-rumor-doctor/the-rumor-doctor-1.104348/has-the-army-eliminated-bayonet-training-1.137356"]different style[/URL] of bayonet use--not affixed to the end of a rifle but as a secondary melee weapon. [INDENT] To make bayonet training relevant again, the Army got rid of the bayonet assault course, in which soldiers fixed a bayonet to the end of a rifle, ran towards a target while yelling and then rammed the bayonet into the target center. Instead, soldiers learn in combatives training how to use a knife or bayonet if someone grabs their primary weapon. [/INDENT] Some users on Twitter have claimed that, by virtue of the USMC still using bayonets, there actuallyare [I]more [/I]bayonets in use than 1916, when the army had between [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_Movement#Compromise_reached"]100,000[/URL] and 140,000 enlisted members. As of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps"]2010[/URL], the Corps boasted 203,000 active duty members and 40,000 reserve marines. Regarding horses, a statue of a member of the U.S. Special Forces on horseback was [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/horse-soldier-near-world-trade-center-afghanistan_n_2000861.html?utm_hp_ref=new-york"]just unveiled[/URL] at Ground Zero in New York City. When our Special Forces invaded Afghanistan post-9/11, many did so [URL="http://www.horsechannel.com/horse-exclusives/fort-bragg-military-horses.aspx"]on horseback[/URL]. All those drones & other toys will never replace boots on the ground . [/QUOTE]
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