08-27-2011, 11:27 PM
Marines would be making head shots with 1-(n) scopes just as well, and wouldn't need a separate red dot for CQB. That is the beauty of the 1-(n)x scopes. There are several that are a true 1x when dialed down, and basically work like a red dot on that setting. Get out of the house or alley, dial up to whatever power tickles your tastes, and make effective shots within the maximum ballistic potential of your weapon.
The benefits of the ACOG in this area are that you don't encounter some of the mounting issues with standard tubular scopes that the average rifleman could screw up easily, such as scope/reticle rotation in the rings, ring screw tightness and loc-tite, etc. Tubular scopes need to me employed by more-educated soldiers who can put 2 and 2 together, versus many of your first-term joes with sub-85 GT scores. This is why MARSOC just purchased over a thousand Leupold 1.1-8x Scopes, since you probably won't even be screened for those units without a GT of 110 or higher, in addition to existing experience.
If Army Infantry AIT and Marine School of Infantry focused more on true weapons and accessories training, versus peacetime military BS like equal opportunity, sensitivity training, homosexual awareness and indoc, hug your buddy, etc., the problems with lack of "gun-guy" savviness could be tackled, but at the end of the day, it is the government running the show, and time at the chow hall and parade field doing D&C is more important than learning the way of the warrior, especially when limp-wristed noodle-spine leaders with no extensive combat experience are running the initial entry show, having failed to land a more deployment-oriented command slot.
Every now and then, some good ones find their way there, but the initial entry, continual training, and leadership development schools in the military are very lacking in battle-focus, while heavy on the weak sauce.
The benefits of the ACOG in this area are that you don't encounter some of the mounting issues with standard tubular scopes that the average rifleman could screw up easily, such as scope/reticle rotation in the rings, ring screw tightness and loc-tite, etc. Tubular scopes need to me employed by more-educated soldiers who can put 2 and 2 together, versus many of your first-term joes with sub-85 GT scores. This is why MARSOC just purchased over a thousand Leupold 1.1-8x Scopes, since you probably won't even be screened for those units without a GT of 110 or higher, in addition to existing experience.
If Army Infantry AIT and Marine School of Infantry focused more on true weapons and accessories training, versus peacetime military BS like equal opportunity, sensitivity training, homosexual awareness and indoc, hug your buddy, etc., the problems with lack of "gun-guy" savviness could be tackled, but at the end of the day, it is the government running the show, and time at the chow hall and parade field doing D&C is more important than learning the way of the warrior, especially when limp-wristed noodle-spine leaders with no extensive combat experience are running the initial entry show, having failed to land a more deployment-oriented command slot.
Every now and then, some good ones find their way there, but the initial entry, continual training, and leadership development schools in the military are very lacking in battle-focus, while heavy on the weak sauce.