kutv.com - Concern Growing Over U.S. Troops' Ammo

kutv.com - Concern Growing Over U.S. Troops' Ammo: "In a confidential report to Congress last year, active Marine commanders complained that: '5.56 was the most worthless round,' 'we were shooting them five times or so,' and 'torso shots were not lethal.'

In last week's Marine Corps Times, a squad leader said his Marines carried and used 'found' enemy AK-47s because that weapon's 7.62 mm bullets packed 'more stopping power.'

Bruce Jones is a mechanical engineer who helped design artillery, rifles and pistols for the Marines.

'I saw the tests that clearly showed how miserable the bullets really were in performance,' he says. 'But that's what we're arming our troops with. It's horrible, you know, it's unconscionable.'

To demonstrate to CBS News, Jones fired the larger-caliber 7.62 bullet fired by AK-47s used by insurgents in Iraq into a block of glycerin. The hole cavity is 50 percent or more larger than that of the 5.56. "