Lesson Re-learned

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In boot camp and mct/itb they now teach us speed and tactical reloads wearing full body armory. Useful stuff.

Not sure I see speed reloads as being really useful for other than 3-gun competition. In all of the videos I've watched of Iraq and Afghan combat, there has not been a single instance of speed reloading. Even in the incident in the OP, the Marine would've had his rifle reloaded quickly enough if he had stowed the empty mag in his trousers cargo pocket instead of trying to put it back into the mag pouch.