Obviously excluding the US Army when discussing your average joe shooter. I would bet that even veterans who served in combat would balk at taking on enemy uniformed soldiers on their own, or with average joes with little to no combat experience.

 

In war, it's best to let your insurgent forces deal with "soft" targets (logistics) than go after frontline units. If America were invaded, let the US military handle to enemy main forces, and take it on your self to attack them in the rear.

 

Our best weapon to fend off an invasion in this country isn't an AR-15... it's ANFO and pipebombs. We'll do to them what they did to us in Afghanistan and Iraq.

 

I'm not comparing the average Joe Shooter to the U.S. Army, I am saying that the Logistics is no longer a soft target.

 

We had armored Freightliner trucks with puncture healing 7k gal fuel tankers, Up armored HMMWV's, Cellular and radio interception capabilities, at least two Kiowa's overhead and a M1117 on point with a .50, M240B and a Mk19.

 

All they could do was plant mines.

I'm not comparing the average Joe Shooter to the U.S. Army, I am saying that the Logistics is no longer a soft target.

 

We had armored Freightliner trucks with puncture healing 7k gal fuel tankers, Up armored HMMWV's, Cellular and radio interception capabilities, at least two Kiowa's overhead and a M1117 on point with a .50, M240B and a Mk19.

 

All they could do was plant mines.

 

I understand that we (the US) has made great strides on improving convoy security... but how long did it take to lock things down the way we did? Hell, for awhile, we barely had enough M1117s to do the job. Much less anti-IED vehicles to clear the way.

 

Planting mines and IEDs killed more warfighters than AK-47s shooting 7.62x39...

 

M1117s ftw though, I got to play around in a few here at work during an orientation.