Ask an Iraq war Vet

[MuresanForMVP]

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Good thread, OP. Thanks for posting this and answering our questions.

BTW in one of the videos I saw a marine (?) firing an AK-47. Is that common to switch your weapon to a non-US-issue one?

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you can use them after taking them from an enemy combatant, but it's important to make sure that you've actually seen it being fired previously. I've heard that the insurgents will take Dragunov sniper rifles, drill holes in the buttstocks or other places so that when it's fired, fragmentation is thrown into the face of the operator. they'll then leave them lying around in the hopes that a US troop tries to use it and there goes their vision