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Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines. According to this, they'll be standing down. US reportedly will disband anti-terror force in Philippines Published June 26, 2014 June 11, 2014: In this photo released by the Philippine National Police Public Information Office (PNP-PIO) in Manila, Philippines, Khair Mundos, a top commander of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group who is on the U.S. list of most-wanted terrorists and has acknowledged receiving Al Qaeda funds to finance bombings in the country, undergoes a police booking procedure following his capture near Manila's international airport. (AP Photo/Philippine National Police Public Information Office) After more than a decade of helping fight Al Qaeda-linked militants, the United States is disbanding an anti-terror contingent of hundreds of elite American troops in the southern Philippines where armed groups such as Abu Sayyaf have largely been crippled, officials said Thursday. But special forces from the U.S. Pacific Command, possibly in smaller numbers, will remain after the deactivation of the anti-terror contingent called Joint Special Operations Task Force Philippines, or JSOTF-P, to ensure Al Qaeda offshoots such as Abu Sayyaf and the Indonesia-based Jemaah Islamiyah militant network do not regain lost ground, according to U.S. and Philippine officials. The move marks a new chapter in the long-running battle against an Al Qaeda-inspired movement in the southern Philippines, viewed by the U.S. as a key front in the global effort to keep terrorists at bay. It reflects shifting security strategies and focus in economically vibrant Asia, where new concerns such as multiple territorial conflicts involving China have alarmed Washington's allies entangled in the disputes. A year after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the U.S. military established the task force in the southern Philippines to help ill-equipped Filipino forces contain a bloody rampage by Abu Sayyaf gunmen, who carried out bombings, terrorized entire towns and kidnapped more than 100 people, including three Americans. Although U.S. forces are barred by the Philippine Constitution from local combat, the advice, training, military equipment and intelligence, including drone surveillance, that they provided helped the underfunded Philippine military beat back the Abu Sayyaf. U.S.-backed Philippine offensives whittled the militants' ranks from a few thousand fighters -- mostly drawn from desperately poor hinterland villages -- to about 300 gunmen, who survive on extortion and kidnappings for ransom while dodging military assaults. "Our partnership with the Philippine security forces has been successful in drastically reducing the capabilities of domestic and transnational terrorist groups in the Philippines," U.S. Embassy Press Attache Kurt Hoyer said in a written response to questions sent by email by The Associated Press. The remaining terrorists, he said, "have largely devolved into disorganized groups resorting to criminal undertakings to sustain their activities." That success has led U.S. military planners in coordination with their Philippine counterparts "to begin working on a transition plan where the JSOTF-P as a task force will no longer exist," Hoyer said, adding there were currently about 320 American military personnel left in the south. There were about 500 to 600 American military personnel in the south before the drawdown. Hoyer said a still-unspecified number of U.S. military personnel from the Pacific Command would remain under a new unit called the PACOM Augmentation Team to provide Filipino forces with counter-terrorism and combat training and advice, and "ensure that violent extremist organizations don't regain a foothold in the southern Philippines." He suggested the remaining American personnel would move away from training exercises with Filipino combat units in the field, and shift to working with Philippine security forces at unified commands and headquarters units. The timing of such withdrawals from counterterrorism campaigns from the southern Philippines to Afghanistan has been a dilemma for the U.S., which must ensure that remaining extremist forces are not able to bounce back. Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said Philippine officials have been notified of the U.S. move and expressed confidence that Filipino forces could deal with any lingering threat from Muslim extremists in the south, scene of a decades-long Muslim separatist rebellion in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation. Gazmin said with the scaling down of the U.S. presence in the south, the Americans would renew a presence elsewhere in the country to help address another security worry -- China's increasingly assertive behavior in the disputed South China Sea, where Beijing, Manila and four other governments have been locked in increasingly tense territorial disputes. The U.S. and the Philippines, which are defense treaty allies, signed a 10-year pact in April that will allow possibly thousands of American forces temporary access to selected Filipino military camps and enable them to preposition fighter jets and ships. The Philippines' efforts to protect its territory have dovetailed with Washington's intention to pivot away from years of heavy military engagement in the Middle East to Asia, partly as a counterweight to China's rising clout.

Clean it like you would after shooting shotshells out of your rifled slug gun barrel...

Yeah, not bad. 168 or 175?

Oh, I understand you, Jimmy... I just don't think you understand yet... <lmao> I amend my comment to be accurate for your state laws - Your other barrel won't be swapped into your current config. It's going to turn into another, separate, upper receiver... Man, these things are like Lay's potato chips. You can't have just one. That, I guarantee you. The best thing you can do for yourself, especially since you've entered this gun-ownership world... is move. I know, I know, we hear it all the time, especially from the site owner of this very place here. "I can't, I can't, work, family, yada yada yada..." One day, you will realize - the politicians in YOUR state don't give one $hit about you, or your rights. The only thing that YOU can do to change that is to move the fuk out, and diminish their state income tax level by one-more-person. Eventually, when most people in your state are tired of that $hit, and they DO move, they're going to start to feel it. Until then, until money impacts them, they don't and won't care about you. Off the :soap: now...

Mine's never missing, until I go to bed - then it's beside me.

Please explain what specific parts you're talking about, because your advice to this guy just doesn't make sense. Your comments should be clarified before someone else reads it, finds some generic parts you're talking about, installs them... and we're diagnosing some other problem they are having, after that.

Not really, man - the real fix is to break it in with a couple hundred rounds of .308 Winchester commercial off-the-shelf ammo, with the upper receiver wet with lube, and get the function of the rifle down. After that, move to some military 7.62x51 ammo, and have at it. These big fuckers need to be broken in, and parts meshed. Bearing surfaces on the BCG, inside the upper receiver, bolt lugs-to-barrel extension - all that stuff needs to be properly pounded into place, whilst wet with lube. Hell, even magazines need to be broken in - don't go load your brand new 20-rd mag with 20 rounds, and expect perfection. Load light in the mags, break those bastards in, too. These things ain't AR-15s...

I just don't wanna starting seeing a bunch of bull$hit from someone quoting that damn article, and talking about their .22LR CCW piece, saying it's just as effective as someone carrying a .45 ACP, Border Patrol .40, or a .460 S&W Mag, or a Howitzer... :ugone2far: EDIT - Had to go back and edit this one to make sure "bull$hit" showed up... <lmao>

^^^ I bought one of those things right away, man!

If Tacticat pulled this $hit, I'd duct-tape him into a tight little ball. This cat wakes it's owner up every morning like this. Nobody believed them, so they set a camera out to record it. Thumper would get the Super Soaker for this $hit... :hunter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tXv-RTcI-M

That won't happen. You'll get the Fulton barrel and build another rifle out of it. Mark my words. <thumbsup>

If this was the guy's conclusion... ...then why did he title the article the way he did?

We'd make a great combo, brother! You take the frog legs, and I'll take the lesbians! <lmao>

I have 1/2 dozen of the VooDoo cases - you'll like them. Pelican cases can't be beat for durability and sealing, and the Plano AW case is a close runner-up for it. The Plano might not be crush-proof, but it is damn tough and does seal really well. It doesn't have a pressure relief valve like the Pelican cases do, but it's got a screw that you turn out to release pressure. The Plano AW cases are very good cases, and less than 1/2 of what you'd pay for the Pelican versions.

That is damn cool!

That's good stuff, right there. Reminds me of a buddy's roofing job a few years ago.

Check with scope cap manufacturers and see if you can find it listed. Search out the Butler Creek info and see if they have it listed. EDIT - Can't find any exact dimensions, but here's one mounted in a set of Burris Signature Zee rings, high-size. That at least gives you a known height to hit. Might want to go extra high if it's going onto a flat-top setup and not a bolt gun. https://www.snipercentral.com/bushnell4200.phtml

That's an owner that doesn't give a $hit about his employees, right there.

I've used ALOT of Aero Precision receivers for 5.56 builds. I'd have to count, but probably 10 of their sets. Never had an issue with any of them, and the machining is perfect.

Only one out there that will function with 308 upper receivers. I run the MP BAD levers on several 5.56 rifles. If I had the need on a .308, I wouldn't hesitate to get this one.

Don't overlook Rainier Arms.

<lmao> Looks like Bear Grylls couldn't get to his knife fast enough...

Matt!!! This story makes me happy!!! GOOD FOR YOU, BROTHER!!! HELL YEAH!!!