The Ayoob files: when your gun jams in a firefight - Massad Ayoob

American Handgunner, Jan-Feb, 2004

The alternative is not acceptable. I leave you with more words from Edward Murphy. "Then, as the company neared the battle site, Pfc. Gordon J. Fenlon, a 19-year-old from Green Bay, Wisconsin, saw bodies in the underbrush, Marine bodies. 'I saw several crumpled beside their broken down M16s,' Felon recalled. A cleaning rod protruded from the barrel of one rifle, grim evidence of the owner's futile efforts to clear a jam." (7)

(1) Murphy, Edward F., The Hill Fights: The First Battle of Khe Sanh, New York City: Ballantine Books, 2003, P. 24Z (2) Ezell, Edward Clinton, Small Arms of the World, 12th Edition, Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1983, P. 755. (3) Murphy, op.cit., P. 54. (4) Ibid., pp. 138139. (5) Ibid., P. 212. (6) Ibid., P. 147. (7) Ibid., P. 91.