Episode 67 - The M-16 Rifle: A Dumb History

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Lions Led By Donkeys

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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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On this episode we examine the birth of the M-16 Rifle and its deployment to the Vietnam War. How did the Pentagon take a rifle that passed every test with flying colors and turn it into a piece of shit that undoubtably killed hundreds of American soldiers? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources for this episode: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/06/m-16-a-bureaucratic-horror-story/545153/ https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/m16-rifle-went-war-against-north-korea%E2%80%94and-succeeded-vietnam-not-so-much-32252 https://www.pewpewtactical.com/m16-vietnam-failure https://fenixammo.com/pages/history-of-the-223-remington-cartridge

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0:00.0	If you should lose your cleaning equipment, field expedients may have to be employed.
0:05.0	A piece of heavy wire, for instance, may serve as a limited substitute for your cleaning rod.
0:11.0	Or if you run into a friendly mechanized patrol
0:15.0	you might borrow the boar brush and cleaning rod of the 50 caliber machine gun
0:20.0	to clean the chamber of your M16A1.
0:23.0	Are you a gun guy?
0:25.0	Like, I know guns.
0:26.0	Well, you kind of have to because of your job,
0:29.0	but like, you're not like a gun nerd.
0:31.0	No, not really. I'm not either. I know of guns. Yeah, I'm familiar with the concept.
0:37.6	Yeah, so I don't fucking like go, they meant to say mag, not clip, clip isn't it?
0:44.7	No.
0:46.4	Because I've definitely seen those people.
0:47.8	AR stands for assault rifle.
0:49.4	That's a proven fact.
0:50.5	And hello and welcome to yet another episode of the Lions led by
0:55.5	Donkeys podcast I'm Joe and back from his brave trip to the operating room is
1:01.8	Nick I died a little bit on the table.
1:05.0	Yeah, that's what happens to give you too much drugs.
1:09.0	So how you doing now with the
1:13.8	terrible with the robot leg terrible yeah I feel like it would have been better if you just sawed your leg off yeah
1:20.9	had a robot like grandma like grandma's boy.
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