"I turned to my left and noticed that Caleb was not firing. It turns out that his EOTech had been literally destroyed in the explosion (he was driving). As rugged as the EOTechs are, an antitank mine is tougher! One might ask why he didn't just flip up his handy dandy MaTech BUIS and engage. Well folks, the fact is that he doesn't have one. The unit before us, who was supposed to pass on the MaTech units, didn't totally fulfill their obligation (shame on them and their supply guys). About 10 soldiers, rather than turning in their BUIS, decided to keep them and/or sell them. Result: guys in Iraq not having BUIS. Now granted, this is a fixable problem, but it is a problem that should not exist in the first place. "
That's not how supply is supposed to work. Thank your ate-up supply sgt for not getting your unit the back-up sights.
"All you people buying these military-only BUIS, I consider you enablers. I'm not going to go psycho on you, or post in all your threads about how horrible you are, because I know you're just guys trying to get the best gear, just like me. But I just want you to understand what happens down the line in the real world, when necessary gear is on your uber-1337 M4gery instead of on real weapons carried by real soldiers in real combat."
I really doubt the unit your soldier would have had has been sold on the internet. It's probably still on a weapon with the unit in question that decided not to give you their issue - when they go back to Iraq it will probably still be with them. It isn't a unit's obligation to hand over their issue to another unit.
"I keep my carry handle in a pouch on my IBA, and I tossed it to Caleb, who quickly replaced the ruined EOTech and got in the fight."
Caleb should have been point shooting, but I'm amazed you were able to stop fighting and have the presance of mind to throw him a plecebo [the irons] so he could start firing. I carried three full mags of tracers over there and sight or not I could hit what I needed to hit. Another plus is that tracers have a phsycological effect- they scare rags.
"Result: a few cuts and bruises, some tinnitus, a ruined HMMWV, a destroyed EOTech, and five dead terrorists. You may all congratulate me on my tenth and eleventh confirmed kills."
That's good to hear. The rags didn't get to take any American lives. I hate those fuckers good job making them into "good ragheads", that sucks about the hearing loss and constant ringing.