Report: Rifle failed in Afghan firefight
Posted: October 12, 2009 at 5:09 a.m.
Staff Sgt. Cristopher Davis of Pensacola, Fla., cleans his M4 assault rifle before going out on patrol near Camp Florida in eastern Afghanistan in this September 2006 photo.
It was chaos during the early morning assault last year on a remote U.S. outpost in Afghanistan and Staff Sgt. Erich Phillips’ M4 carbine had quit firing as militant forces surrounded the base. The machine gun he grabbed after tossing the rifle aside didn’t work either.
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