SA80

[browningautorifle]

a new soldier or fresh face on the block will think it the best weapon on the face of the planet

I can't agree Gil, a soldier will look at other weapons around him and study them. Even a young one will handle things and through time will understand the difference. I know that there are some that can't learn, one fellow senior NCO showed ignorance saying to me "There will always be enough of our rifles lying around, we don't need to learn theirs"... Untrue... The troops will form opinions in this fast moving pace of current employment... You can't fool them forever. Then there's guys like us telling them what shyte they have at the slope...and what else there is.