An alert DT reader spotted this pic of 3rd Btln. 10th Special Forces Group Soldiers training before their deployment at a range in Fort Carson, Colo.
Check out the rifle in this guy’s hand…Mk-16…
Also, the funny thing is that the rest of the pictures show SF operators weilding M4s in various modifications. Wonder what you have to do to be the guy that gets the SCAR?
(Gouge: MP)
– Christian
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Im sorry but SCARs are so FUGLY!
Christian,
I have several theories on how they determine who gets it. First would be it simply goes to the unit commander. Second would be to squad leaders. Third is it possibly goes to the guy with most experience or is the armorer of the unit.
I seem to recall seeing what I thought was a SCAR in the hands of a sniper in Col. Oliver North’s segment on the “Raiders” for Fox news.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,552361,00.html
Never mind my previous post I just found that this has already had its own article on the website.
My Wife was the Armorer for the 276th Combat Eng. for awhile, and I know who always got the newest kewlest weapons. Although, because he job didn’t require her to leave the wire, most times she just walked around with the m9 (Less to carry) and left her rifle locked up.
And no she did not screw the guys leaving the wire. She spent huge amounts of time helping those guys make there stuff run well. They where the only unit over there that could regularly make their mk19s work thanks to her, and I saw her more than once, work all night long to fix a SAW, 240 or just an M4 so that those guys never left the wire with a degraded weapon.
SF groups have a rotation schedule for who gets what new equipment when based on budget requirements and deployment schedule, just like every other unit. Weapon selection is often mission specific as well, and dependent on the unit and operator. It’s that simple.
Interestingly enough this savvy operator is sighting in on a target while the muzzle is pointed at the “wall”.
JH, it’s not how the weapon looks but rather how it operates. A-10′s are FUGLY but I want an A-10 covering my 6 before a sexy F-15E.
who gives a crap if a weapon is sexy or fugly. it not your girlfriend, wife, ec. it s the weapon the going to save your ass in the long run. for example, the any of the AK’s are ugly, but hey they are to most reliable weapons ever built. the m16 from to present may look smooth but are finiky when dirty. so like i said i’d rather have a working ugly rifle then a sexy rifle that will go down in a fire fight in while in the field
John, if you didn’t notice, only the barrel is below the wood. If the sight glass on the weapon is magnified at any level, that’s a good enough reason to poke it up over to check out the scenery, without drawing fire by sticking his barrel way out.
My guess: the operator is an 18B- Weapons Sergeant.
AMMO – The rifle follows the sightline, not the other way around. You dont check out the scenery through your optic – thats reserved for engaging targets. Not to mention that an EOTECH optic offers 0 magnification. He will shoot the wood (his finger is on the trigger in the photo.) operstors scan for targets with the trigger finger indexed along the magazine well – they engage when their finger is on the trigger. His chain of command did not do a good job QCing this photo before release.
fyi, its photoshopped
As long as it saves you…thats important!!!
i see all the new weapons have no bayonet lugs and they guess there is no need for them in future wars? hmmm just like the thinking way back when, they thought that jets no longer needed machine guns on them, maybe before putting this weapon out in numbers and thinking that this is not going to be the only type of warfare they should have one, i would rather have one and never use it then needing it and it not be there
John,
Did it occur to you that this is probably one of a dozen photos of that operator taken within a few seconds time? For all we know he’s a split second from raising his body half and inch and engaging a target.
It may be one of a million things – but in the photo it looks wrong. Spec Ops guys are very critical of each other… its makes us better.
SCAR is a badass gun guys.. watch & read the reviews before judging something you’re unfamiliar with.. nuff said.
Guys, if you notice, thre is a laser sight system mounted on the forward rail handguard and very possibly, this operator is not sighting a target to engage with his weapon but painting one for air engagement.
His head is enough above the wood; 18B weapons Sergeant or not; for a 11B insurgent to take it OFF; pre or post deployment; unless modified by a FOBBIT-with Power Point Presentations later.
Never mind; white TUBE SOCKS? HOLLYWOOD photo anyway…check out the boots; this was staged for the press…
if it don’t jam, keep it. nice pr photo…
Why his left foot is inside the wood cover? Is he a phantom? Bad photoshop…
I'm all for the SCAR being the new rifle i love my ar-15 but it needs to go