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Stealhead · 08-18-13, 03:44 PM

Well a very important factor in combat is the level of training and the level of discipline a unit has its cohesion.

If any one of those factors are lacking it really does not matter if they have the best weapons in the world the enemy will probably get the better of them.

The early problems of the M-16 can be blamed to a large extent on poor training and lack of using common sense.They where told the weapons did not require cleaning despite evidence
that that was untrue yet many units did not order that the M-16s be cleaned anyway.Green Berets and Navy Seals who also used the M-16 cleaned their M-16s religiously because they knew that it would fail them at the worst time if they did not.As a result some times units of regular army and marine infantry suffered serious casualties when in fire fights and the majority of their rifles failed which allowed the VC or NVA unit to gain fire superiority. Of course the NVA/VC had the advantage of using many weapons that are "solider proof" and will function well enough despite horrible treatment.Though I am fairly sure that the NVA/VC maintained their weapons to a pretty high standard most of the time.

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Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Well a very important factor in combat is the level of training and the level of discipline a unit has its cohesion. If any one of those factors are lacking it really does not matter if they have the best weapons in the world the enemy will probably get the better of them. The early problems of the M-16 can be blamed to a large extent on poor training and lack of using common sense.They where told the weapons did not require cleaning despite evidence that that was untrue yet many units did not order that the M-16s be cleaned anyway.Green Berets and Navy Seals who also used the M-16 cleaned their M-16s religiously because they knew that it would fail them at the worst time if they did not.As a result some times units of regular army and marine infantry suffered serious casualties when in fire fights and the majority of their rifles failed which allowed the VC or NVA unit to gain fire superiority. Of course the NVA/VC had the advantage of using many weapons that are "solider proof" and will function well enough despite horrible treatment.Though I am fairly sure that the NVA/VC maintained their weapons to a pretty high standard most of the time. Last edited by Stealhead; 08-18-13 at 03:54 PM.