Use clearing-not cleaning-rod.(Small Arms ...)(Letter to the editor)

From: PS, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly | Date: November 1, 2007| Author: Becker, Gary | Copyright information

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Dear Editor,

I was surprised to see on Page 21 in PG 642 (May 06) the suggestion that; gunners run a cleaning rod down the muzzle to check for a stuck round.

Here at Ft Leonard Wood we do everything we can to get; soldiers NOT to use a cleaning rod to check For stuck rounds. A cleaning rod can unscrew arid come apart; in the weapon's barrel. The soldier doesn't realize part; of the cleaning rod is still in the barrel. The ne...

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