Guns + Sand = A Big Mess!

Small Unit Tactics: This is why you should join the military, you get to play in the sand! Why do we "low crawl" you ask. The reason is if you are being fired upon, you still need to advance on the enemy. All of the wires and bars you see represent bullets flying over you. If you touch a wire than you are crawling too high and got hit by a bullet.

This image shows you just how low those wires really are. While you are doing this, you want to make sure your muzzle doesn't touch the sand- that's bad.

Once we were done practicing tactics and crawling around on the ground, we had the privilege of cleaning our M4's. You would be surprised how easy it is to take apart a rifle. However, all that sand you saw up above is now in our rifles! Which means we have to clean it all out- attention to detail, can't leave any specks.

There is no exact science once you have broken down the rifle. You just use cloth, gauze, or snakes to clean the rifle. A couple of the M4's were pretty bad and took about an hour to clean. I was lucky, mine barely had any sand! Once your done you put her back together, slap a little bit of oil on and lube up the M4, then your done!