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[Eaglelord17]

We too suffered through the stories from the great unknowing about enemy being able to use our such and such but we couldn't...I ended up spending years to quell such stories...

Those same stories still come up to this day occasionally. Kinda fun shooting them down though.

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[browningautorifle]

same stories still come up

You think after this last great conflagration, there'd be enough people around that know better...but as mentioned it's like an old hand game. "I know these things"...

I guess in reality most of the vets have rotated out of line now. Very few serving junior ranks with stars. Less Snr NCOs too...than you'd think.

[Eaglelord17]

You think after this last great conflagration, there'd be enough people around that know better...but as mentioned it's like an old hand game. "I know these things"...

I guess in reality most of the vets have rotated out of line now. Very few serving junior ranks with stars. Less Snr NCOs too...than you'd think.

We are pretty much at the point now where no one serving even used the previous generations of weapons (except generally the fairly Snr NCOs and officers). My father and uncle were on some of the last infantry battle schools for them (C1, C1 SMG, C2, C5 etc.). That puts the youngest you can be is your late 40s, and even then your exposure would have been fairly limited as they would have only been in service with them for a few years.

The problem is simply poor information being told by a few, and others taking it as gospel. The good thing is with the internet it is easier than ever to disprove this stuff for them. Most the people being told these falsehoods were mainly told by relatives who were around a while ago (and bought into it then), as opposed to it being shared by leadership.