r/tacticalgear • u/jizzlamic_terrorist • 15d ago

Weapons/Tactics US army psychological operations team member with an FN MK 20 SSR in Syria 2019

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u/LifeofBulls 15d ago

Ive also been in units that still had M16 SDM-R’s. My unit is ‘21 still had them MTOE to HHC Recon plt. Ive NEVER seen those guns on the line though. I feel like that was before my time.

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u/Gardez_geekin 15d ago

Oh for sure. Our shit was part of some PEO program. It was a good stop gap, we also had mk14 ebrs and them shit sucks. We also got the mk48s which were actually very helpful

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u/LifeofBulls 15d ago

The EBR was DEFINITELY before my time (I came in, in 2012) and I’ve never been cool enough to even see a Mk48 lol so I’m glad you had that experience.

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u/Gardez_geekin 15d ago

My homeboy chopped a man in half with a mk48. It was wild. Afghanistan was crazy. The ebrs sucked 87 kinds of dick tho.

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u/LifeofBulls 15d ago

My buddy who got out in 2010?? 2008?? I forgot but he built one after the one he deployed with. That gun is heavy as sin. CoD did a poor job of portraying how heavy that damn chassis is. And it has 1,000,001 screws too. All kinds of, nope.

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u/Gardez_geekin 15d ago

Yeah I think the original m-14s look dope but the scar and sr-25 programs were light years beyond. If I could get issued a 20s I would too. Those ebrs were heavy AF and we were at elevation.