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I can see where the corps would say that... I've heard this before, mainly to avoid a bad situation where initiating with an open bolt machine gun goes wrong and the enemy hears a CLACK!, and none of your guys shoot.
I think that, if you have something else, the rule of thumb about most casualty producing weapon applies. The only "ambush" I ever did was kind of nonstandard, where the enemy was moving into position to attack my camp but thought they had complete surprise. I initiated on them with 8 himars missiles (oooooh yeah) and a barrage of 120 and 81 mm mortar fire, followed by all the MG's and MK19's. they never got a shot off.
The aftermath was kind of funny. The Taliban TL was offset and started trying to do a roll call over the ICOM. He went through eight names, then actually said "Noooooooooooooo!" On the air. Made our day.
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