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Ah, someone who read and understood…
There were six other SAs in the C1 Squad that day, Hutch, one of whom had an H&K MP5-SD on the backseat, and another who had an M16 beside him, probably in a special rack.
Among those six non-combattant SAs were four additional Remington Models 870.
MB, what do you think the lessons might have been?
For me, it was encapsulated in Gordon MacNeill's acknowledgement that as pricked up as he was going in, after he'd emptied his 2½-inch K-frame and slide down behind one of the fleet vehicles to reload… and realized that the fight was still raging, all the "energy" ran right out of him.
That's pretty insightful… and brings home to me the familiar exhortation of an instructor friend who's fought his way through some pretty Gawd-awful battles: "Stay in the fight! Don't quit!" ( Hint: his sig. used to read "Courage is endurance... for one moment more.")
And Halffast, it may have escaped you that this really isn't about "hardware." Save the "Mini14 v...." for the pages of S.W.A.T.
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