Quote Originally Posted by wbm View Post
In another life in a far away place I saw Marines killed, in part, because of that decoration. Early on M16's would fail to go to battery. LOTS!. The next move was to push the decoration and the next was to take out a cleaning rod get up on one knee and try and clear the weapon. Terminally bad move!
Bummer--what happened--they launched a round into the face or something?