Fighting the Taliban with a Pistol and a pair of Silkies
If you are a Marine, you know the most detested piece of gear issued are the unethically short PT shorts known as ‘Silkies’.
These are notorious for letting way too much ass and balls show when running or doing PT.
Well, just read a great interview with Marine Major Robb McDonald over at MC Times. McDonald a prior enlisted service and Recon marine turned AV-8B Harrier driver woke up one night with 15 Muj in the wire. You may have heard of the place, Camp Bastion , where a team of Taliban sappers came in and made like the WWII SAS, destroying something like 8% of the world’s entire operational Harrier fleet.
And if it wasnt for Maj McDonald, his M9 and silkies, it could have been worse.