Now We Can All See For Ourselves Via This Blog Just Exactly Why U.S. Combat Troops Have Been Pleading With The Pentagon Wigs To Discard The 5.56 x 45mm NATO/.223 Remington Cartridge In Exchange For A Round That Inflicts Considerably More Physical Trauma On Enemy Combatants. This Problem Is Exacerbated By The Use Of "Shorty" Weapons Like The M4 Carbine With Its' 14 Inch (Velocity/Energy Cheating)Barrel Which They've Issued To So Many Thousands Of Our Troops In Afganistan And Iraq. Who Can Estimate The Number Of Soldiers Who've Been Wounded/Killed By Enemies Who Were Hit But Not Completely Disabled By Those Tiny Bullets.