One of the fun things about overseeing this blog is the comments that come in. I had to read this one a coupla times: "I had two dozen BARs for my Nung tribal irregulars in Laos. They were hugely more useful than our other basic weapon, the 30 cal M1-A3 carbine (which barely pretended to be an automatic weapon)."

The amount of knowledge collectively possessed by all of you amazes me.