Gitmo:
O-6: Does that squad on patrol have their 201s with them?
O-3 Staff Officer: err… no, sir.
O-6: Well, why the hell not? Isn’t it basic equipment?
O-3 Staff Officer: sir, the 201 files are with the 1 section… As for the 203s…
OK, a 201 file is your “drop file” that has all your records in it.
A 203, or M203, is a 40mm grenade launcher that is attached to an M4/M16 rifle.
Thus, an infantry squad on patrol would be equipped with 203s, not 201s.
And yes, this really happened, so I’ve been told.
yea, I can see that. I really can.
I once had an O6 yell at me for not slowing to 10 mph as I passed him. 3 mortars had landed within 100 meters of that spot only an hour earlier. Wasn’t even on a FOB!
BWAHAHAHAHA….
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Just proves, it doesn’t take a brain to be an O…
I was a platoon sergeant and my company comander told me he didn’t like the way my soldiers were carrying their rifles. “How were they carrying them,” I asked. He described it to me and I told him that that part of the M16 was called the “carrying handle.” You should have seen his expression!