06-30-2018, 02:55 AM
After spending a fair bit of time as a Forward Air Controller in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era and seeing how quickly downed pilots were picked up, captured, or killed, I wondered what the purpose of a survival rifle really was.
Later, as I became more familiar with nuclear weapons, their effects and the MAD Doctrine, I understood the purpose better. There would be no airfields to return to, and effectively everyone - military and civilian - would have to get by as hunter-gatherers for at least a year.
In this environment, a 22 Hornet or 5.56 would be a very effective meat gatherer.
Later, as I became more familiar with nuclear weapons, their effects and the MAD Doctrine, I understood the purpose better. There would be no airfields to return to, and effectively everyone - military and civilian - would have to get by as hunter-gatherers for at least a year.
In this environment, a 22 Hornet or 5.56 would be a very effective meat gatherer.
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"To those who have fought and almost died for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know."
-- Author Unknown
"If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished!" -- Milton Berle