User blog comment:Leolab/Retroactive Unfair Battle Enforcement: Pt. 2/@comment-1683193-20140208080629/@comment-5465602-20140218135552

'26th century military training might be a lot tougher on people of that time than 20th and 21st century spec-ops training is today; just like with the weapons, saying that not much has changed or things have worsened between now and the timeframe of Halo is just utter nonsense" That's the problem though. Halo EU (as much as I hate Halo EU stuff) specifically shows that UNSC marine training is identical to normal ass soldier training from nowadays.

Also, Halo weaponry being identical to modern weaponry is mustn't bullshit people are assuming. It's from actual canon sources that state things like how the MA5B has both a fire rate identical to modern weapons, and fires the 7.62 Full Metal Jacket round, a round of ammo used since the goddamn 1960's. People need to stop assuming its crap, and actually check sources before they just assume things.