Uncle Sam paid me to carry one. I hated it. The only kids that liked the M16icon or M4, were the ones who had grown up playing those damn call of duty video games or grew up as big fans of Rambo and other cheap *** action movies. Everyone who actually knew what they were doing, hated the rifle and the cartridge.

Its like we always joked, if if the damn M4 or m16 or 5.56 was such a damn good cartridge, why did our sergeants tell us DO NOT engage targets past 100 yards unless you had a machinegun or a mortar, or could call to one for help?

If the cartridge was so good, and the platform was so good, they would not have reactivated M1a in good ol 7.62x51 for long range assistance. A