To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing this letter to respond to the utter tripe, that you allowed Mr. Taylor to publish last week in your paper. Before you allow him to publish one more article, I implore you to make him at least do some basic research. For one thing we do not use 20 round magazines in the CF, we use 30 round magazines. He also goes on to state that Cpl. Daniel Beaulieu is an 11 year veteran of the Vandoos, when in fact he is a reservist. He ponders why a troop would want to carry more ammunition in combat, where erroneously infers that we haven’t withdrawn from a fight because we ran out of ammo (going on his 4x 20 rd magazine assumption), when in fact the standard battle load as attested by several members of my regiment who have been overseas is in fact 10-15 magazines with 30 rounds in each (which equals 300-450 rounds of ammunition). He asks who in their right mind would want that much ammo strapped to their chest, and the answer is anyone who goes outside the wire and doesn’t want to be caught short in a firefight that’s who. I could go on but you get the jist of it. I don’t know where Mr. Taylor gets off calling himself a military expert/analyst, when it is painfully clear he is neither.
