Letter to a pogue

Hee is a letter that I wrote to a dude in the US Military mail that took a magazine of mine out of the mail for no good reason.

Dear Sir,

I see that you took the rifle magazine out of my mail. For some reason you have decided that I shouldn’t have the piece of gear that I ordered and paid for out of my own pocket to improve my chances of winning a gunfight against the enemy. I am guessing that the whole “winning a gunfight” thing is a little foreign to you. You probably have not been outside the wire have you?I make my living going outside the wire on a daily basis. That is why I bought the Magpul magazine that you took from my mail. I guess from your letter explaining your actions (I honestly do appreciate the decency to at least write a letter explaining it). That the reason you took the magazine out of my mail was because you suspected that I was taking Army property. (Why would I attempt to smuggle Army property from my house in the US, into Iraq?). But the Army does not issue a Magpul magazine, and that is the reason why I bought them. See I can get my hands on all the crappy issue M16 magazines that I want. I could give them to the kids on the side of the road instead of giving them candy if I wanted to.It is strange to me that the Army would pay someone full time, to mess with the property of others in such a way. In such a way that does not prevent any real crime. I bought the magazine because it works better than the issued magazines. That is how Capitalism works, individuals make decisions for what works better for themselves, and they are by a small but significant percentage more right than any central decider. That is why capitalist societies are richer, (like what we are trying to teach the Iraqis and the Middle East in general- Freedom works) and that is why armies form capitalist countries fare better on the battlefield by orders of magnitude.The magazine that I bought, that you took from me, is more reliable, and it has a little window on it so I can see how many rounds I have left. I find that useful especially in a situation where you have to do combat reloads, or in a situation where you just didn’t realize that a mag was half full. The magazine that I bought, I believe, gives me a slight advantage in any fight against the terrorist or militia thugs that want to kill me and the people I work with- they want to kill us because they figure that by doing so they can more easily be in a position to use force to impose their religion, or their standards of their religion, on their fellow countrymen. Where given free will, most of their countrymen surely are not as zealous as the thugs would want.Granted, the magazine that I bought (that you denied me) gives me a very slight advantage. The issue magazines work adequately most of the time, lord knows there are those fighting on our behalf with worse equipment. And the country in general is not as hot as it used to be. Not as hot as it was when I lost many of my friends. Perhaps you had friends in your basic school that opted to go to the grunts, so you know what I am talking about.The advantage that I gain with the magazine that I bought is slight, but don’t you think that the choice should be mine, to spend my own money to for an improvement, no matter how slight?Sincerely Kiran HillPS. I hope that you returned the magazine to the sender after taking it out of my mail, and did not in fact keep it to put in your own weapon to look cool. You know that the Army does not trust you to have loaded weapons on base (even though there have been isolated cases of the enemy making it onto bases, and soldiers losing their lives because they did not have loaded weapons to defend themselves with). I am not really sure why, I have been handling loaded weapons for the better part of 15 years, and never once has one of them gone ‘bang’ by itself. I personally think that loaded weapons are safer, because you know they are loaded. You never can be sure, and never should act sure that a weapon is unloaded. But that is not really relevant to the issue of why you took away my magazine, when I can mail entire m16 uppers, and I can come in or leave the country carrying as many magazines as I want to.
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