Comments on: Fix Bayonets!

By: chinto

chinto — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:36:15 +0000

true, and well it works well when you need to kill at close range.

there is no excuse at all for not training with the bayonet and also for not training the army personal more in unarmed combat as well. ( unarmed combat that is not politically correct sport type. but systems that are intended to kill and maim a man while you mostly stay on your feet. .. on the ground when others are there who are your attackers friends is a great way to get a head, or ribs or kidney or pelvic girdle or groin kicked in while you roll around being PC. )

By: vince

vince — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:13:40 +0000

as the recruit is being trained to use the bayonet it is a huge confidence boost. Its one of the few times in recruit training where you actually feel like you have the ability to destroy the enemy. nothing beats the rush of running through the bayonet assault course, warcrying your lungs out, and destroying that goddamn course! oorah!

By: yung.vet

yung.vet — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:54:49 +0000

as an e-5 in the infantry, i can tell you with some authority that the army and its f-ing generals have no interest in training for bayonets. ask a veteran of korea about bayonettes and they’ll tell you about how rough korea was. they’ll swear by them. i swear by them. they are excellent for a close range fight– it scares the living shit out of the enemy. they should get rid of the love affair with level 1 combatives and all that unuseable crap and train our joes on this peice of equipment.

By: guest

guest — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:24:18 +0000

Just Nuke the Bastards!

By: chris king

chris king — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:59:32 +0000

meant to say are NOT.. my bad. proofreading not done.

By: chris king

chris king — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:58:38 +0000

The scope, the bayonet, all of it should bear “God Bless America” These are Christians we are fighting here. Fix bayonets inspires any good American soldier to do his task.

By: .ROBERT MARCONTI

.ROBERT MARCONTI — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:28:48 +0000

S/SGT. ROBERT MARCONTI,25 YRS.RETIERED; I THINK THE ARMY IS DOING A BIG & I MEAN BIG INJUSTACE BY DOING AWAY WITH THE BAYONET TRAING. I SERVED IN VIET-NAM IN 68–69, AND THE BAYONET ON THE END OF A WEAPON, WAS VERY SEREAL, AND IT SHOWED THE ENEMY U MENT BISNESS, COLD HARD STEEL BISNESS, JUST MY THOUGHTS ON THE SUBJECT.

By: gert

gert — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:24:00 +0000

I agree with the sentiment,a bayonet is a freightning piece of equipment and for a soldier in a close combat situation can be the difference between life and death
The cost of the bayonet is neglible, the training in its use should be part of the training of every soldier, the fact is war is dirty, nasty and full of surprises, the capacity for a soldier to defend himself as needed in a close combat situation is a necessity that all soldiers should have been trained in. If they are not the leadership, both politically and militarily must take the moral responsiblility for the death caused by the lack of such training.

By: seamus

seamus — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:13:08 +0000

Well as for the relevance in the 21st century I must say the the bayonet still has a place. The british have had 2 bayonet charges since the war on terror started, one in Basrah Iraq in 204 were the Brits killed 30 and captured 12 and another in Afghanista were a soldier charged and bayoneted a bad dude when he ran out of ammo. In addition there are some units that are actually kicing in dorrs with bayoets attached. In 203 members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade shortly after there cobat jump into Bashar Iraq, patroled much of Kurkuk with fixed bayonets. It is a HUGE pyschological factor that can not be ignored. How much did it cost the US tax payers to deliver “Shock and Awe” , thousands of smart bombs costings tens of thousands of dollars a peice. I submit that baynoets are much cheaper. And since they are “in your face” and atached to a pissed off soldier I think they have an edge over the destruction ad impersional effects of laser guided bombs. There is just something very personnal and distubing about having a big piece of cold steel slide through your gut.
I say keep the Bayonet and teach it to everyone in the service.
Via la bayonet!

By: Falindraun

Falindraun — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:59:04 +0000

A) if you read the article on military.com it said they are removing the bayonet training from bct not the army in general. in my 8 years in the army i have not been in a unit that even had bayonets in their mtow let along in their actual invintory.

B) if you read the point of that article the army has realized there are a lot of training in bct that is not for the basic soldier, but is for the infintry soldier

c) the weapon of choice of our current enemy in afghanistan is the ied. i know this as i am currently deployed there