One of the worst things that can happen to you in the middle of a firefight is having a gun that does not work. On July 13, 2008, a group of American soldiers got themselves into an intense firefight in Afghanistan and in the middle of it staff Sgt. Erich Phillip' s M4 carbine stopped firing along with most of his other soldiers. As a result 9 U.S. soldiers died and 27 wounded.

Historians have found out that have failed many times right when the soldier needs it. Since the U.S. is going to be in Iran for a while why doesn't someone replace these guns with a better replacement? Many people call the cheep AK 47 a piece of junk, but in battle it hasn't failed the soldiers who have been using it. I think the reason we don't give are soldiers cheaper guns that have basically the same capabilities is because the M4 looks more professional, and our soldiers would make America look like they are poor or something dumb like that if they were running around with AKs.

The main reason we are in Afghanistan is because we want to find Osama bin Laden, and keep control of the Taliban and Al'Queda. If we can do this cheaply then why don’t we so we can save a couple million dollars that would be put to getting something overly priced like an MP5 and handing each of our soldiers one? Another good thing about having the AK is that soldiers wont have to worry about ammo as much because that is the weapon most terrorists use and when we kill them we can pick up their ammo.

This does not really relate to my topic, but why is President Obama sending so many troops over in Iran, don’t we already have enough of them? There are still a lot of soldiers who like their M4s, but most of the have not been in intense combat. The M4 is a good gun but it is known to overheat after shooting it for a while, so why can’t we just replace it with a gun that is relatively the same but is not too good at far range shooting because it’s bullets spread out a lot if you hold down the trigger. Also a good way to get rid of all the M4s is sell them to one of our allies like Britain, or Israel, so we can get some money to put towards saving the economy.

Hyperlink-http://www.newser.com/story/71413/guns-failed-us-troops-in-afghan-firefight.html