HT: UK armed police G36c loadout?

[Crakkerjakk]

Originally Posted by HANS

The sane reason for this eludes me -- if you're trusting your specially-trained authorised firearms officers (which all British police with a gun are) with a weapon, it's unclear to me why you wouldn't trust them with 30 rather than 15 or 20 rounds . . . Anyway, it's almost certain that the chap does not carry a reload for the carbine.

True story, when I first arrived in Kuwait we were given 60 rounds for "perimeter defense" purposes, and told we would be issued our full combat load once we got to our forward positions near the Iraq-Kuwait border.

When we get there, they say we can draw our other 120 rounds Monday, four days or so away. Sunday night some poor schmuch goes into a port-a-john and eats his rifle. Come Monday they refuse to issue us any more rounds. Because apparently it takes 61 rounds to shoot yourself in the head.

Oh, and they were still willing to issue us two frags apiece. That last bit our own command decided wasn't a great idea.