The Demise of the XM8

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Before my current deployment to Iraq, had a trip to Louisiana for training, which I missed because of surgery. Then as far as range time, had one reflexive fire range, and a zero range. In Kuwait, we verified our zero and did a couple live fire runs through a shoot house. So, after about 100 total rounds in a four month build up, all the rest of them were fired in Tikrit. About 3 months into our deployment "the man" decided ranges would be a great idea and started letting us do them regularly. Now they talk about how scarred they are that we carry M203 HEs and M67s since we aren't properly trained on them. The insurgents are safe in their firing positions behind their thick brick walls since the AT4s we have just sit at the ammo point since we, again, "aren't properly trained" to use them.