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Originally Posted by 0311Marine
What I meant was that the smallest person will usually be issued the SAW, its not a requirement , its just one of the fun games they play, Ive only seen the .45 used by recon and some infantry officers. Ive never actually seen a pouge who new his way around a weapon, unless you count Armores. And it is possible to get issued a pistol before you make Staff NCO, it just depends on the weapon you have, usually havy machine gunners get issued pistols along with the Machine Guns they use, and snipers also get a pistol. The only bad thing about that is its just one more thing to carry and clean.
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Depends on what you consider a pouge. If you go strictly by the 03 designation then I'm Pouge but all my field time was spent with Grunts of one type or the other. MSG duty can't really consider them Pogues their out there on their own until they can get back filled by FAST or a BLT ask the guys in Burma in 86 when it was goin to shit, Sierria Leon in 96, anybody who ever stood post 1 in Bogota, Lima, La Paz, Mogadishu. Regardless of their MOS MSG ain't Pouge's. Combat Engineers, FSSG Beach and Port especially ADP and Helo Teams, Helo Crews, Field MP's they ain't 03 but ya can't really call em Pouges.
As far as pistols for T/O weapon yeah it's dependant on MOS. 0331, 0351, 2531 can all be issued sidearms as well as a bunch of other MOS's it's dependant on the command. But you know as well as I do an 0311 ain't gettin issued an M9 he's a rifleman.