[Oddball]

Unfortunately none of you seem to display knowledge of the novel "Black Hawk Down". This describes in detail the various reasons that they had excess ammuntion. BTW the guy in his sig is Delta so he's prolly got a good reason for having an M14, those guys don't screw around.

Anyway, the mission was supposed to last 2 hours, therefore they threw away things that were unecessary such as canteens, bayonets and nightvision. Extra ammo was placed in wherever they could find space. The Ranger who fell on the fast rope had heaps of M-60 ammo too.

Also during the night another Black Hawk actually made a drop of IV bags and i think ammo too. This Black Hawk was shot down too but managed to land in friendly zones. Actually in total 4 Black Hawks were shot down and two of these crash landed at base.

Hope that helps.