Gaming's Burning Questions!

QUESTION: Do soldiers regularly take weapons, ammo, and other supplies from the corpses of their enemies?

ANSWER: “Only if they are working behind enemy lines,” says Marcinko. “Of course, there are no defined lines in Iraq or Afghanistan — the ‘war on terror’ is an open field. SpecOps guys do it to make sure they have supplies if they’re doing true clandestine or covert ops. With terrorists, I’d take it to deny their use by someone else. A seasoned operator will booby-trap what he can’t carry.”

In more conventional fights, Keirsey says some enemy gear might be “thrown into the cargo hold of a supply Humvee, headed to the rear to get tagged,” but he suggests that soldiers are far more likely to hold onto the gear they know best. “Your weapon is the girl you brought to the dance,” he tells us. “You have babied it, cleaned it, tuned it, made it fit your style, zeroed it perfectly. Why on earth would you want to pick up some loser-slob’s piece? It didn’t seem to do him much good.”

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