Soar Falcons, Soar

No. Those wood stocks and rifle butts on the M14 can acquit themselves quite nicely in a fight.

Plus, you can fire a bottle-rocket (minus the stick) from the breech of an M-14. The width is damn near perfect and the rifling permits a very accurate projectile which, ironically enough, can make it from the 4th stoop ghetto corner to the cadet standing guard in Old Barracks Courtyard.

Not that I'd know from personal experience.

Next posting I'll discuss the principles of physics and ballistics involved in firing a grapefruit from the top of Nichols Engineering Building and into the Old Barracks Courtyard utlilizing a water-balloon launcher.

Now I remember why I was suspended my third-class year.

Ouch! John, why do you do this to yourself man??

The mission of the Air Force is to "Fly and Fight", not crawl around in the mud. That is left to others, who apparently enjoy it.

Comment by Brother-in-law shortly after Air Force basic upon exam of my AR-15. "what is the round thing in the carrying handle for?"
Oh that is the rear sight,
"rear sight?"
Air Force M-16 circa 1970's at his basic apprently only had the sighting ramp with no front or rear sights.
Spray and pray.

Looks pretty close to what I went through at USAFA BCT.

"No. Those wood stocks and rifle butts on the M14 can acquit themselves quite nicely in a fight.

Plus, you can fire a bottle-rocket (minus the stick) from the breech of an M-14."

Trust me, a "rubber ducky" (which is what we called our faux-M-16s) will do just fine as a bludgeon.

Unfortunately, you can no longer use them as projectile weapons. Some years before I attended, someone managed to commit suicide with a pencil fired out of his mock gun by means of a firecracker. The barrels were promptly filled in.

Actually, there is something worse than our M-14s without their firing pins...our M-14s without their firing pins AND their bolts (a la the parade we marched for the VP this year)...