gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Army - Infantry)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2008-12-03 05:32 pm
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Yes, I was this stupid once.

With thanks to [livejournal.com profile] redc1c4



Yeah. My stupidity involved sinking a M-113A1 in a pond and deciding it would be cool to see what would happen if we blew off over 3,000 rounds of 7.62mm in a single M-60 burst. (We melted the gun. Seriously. Miracle the thing didn't explode.)
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[identity profile] arib.livejournal.com 2008-12-04 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
He just... fired a mortar while holding it?

Somewhere, a range safety officer is having a coronary.

[identity profile] taschoene.livejournal.com 2008-12-04 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Screw the RSO -- the First Sergeant is probably having a conniption.

At least he didn't try the knee mortar (http://members.shaw.ca/nambuworld/t89pix.htm)trick.

[identity profile] fearsclave.livejournal.com 2008-12-04 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Did he just fire a 60mm from the hip?

Dude. He doesn't need a personal weapon. He can just club the enemy to death with his testicles.

[identity profile] docwebster.livejournal.com 2008-12-04 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Dude, that may well be the greatest comment left on any Livejournal ever.

[identity profile] john-appel.livejournal.com 2008-12-04 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Holy... well, he doesn't exactly brace it on his hip. But still. I fired a 203 from the hip once and had a bruise for a week.

Reminds me of the old picture of the buck sergeant firing a Thompson with the butt braced on his chin!

My late father

[identity profile] capplor.livejournal.com 2008-12-04 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
who'd been respectably enlisted in the Navy (WWII, and it turned out it was so he could graduate HS after failing history) told stories of sinking two boats. Unfortunately, they were the ones he stood on.

[identity profile] chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com 2008-12-04 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
We melted the gun. Seriously.

Not just the barrel, but the whole gun?

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2008-12-04 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
The chamber was glowing red. After we stopped, the bolt welded in the cocked position.

how much

[identity profile] redc1c4.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
was the statement of charges for that?

Re: how much

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Let's just say that I gave up pizza and beer for two months, and got used to being called "private" again instead of "PFC."

sucked to be you.....

[identity profile] redc1c4.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)

i'm guessing you were on leave when *this* video was taken?

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=41f_1222094432

i'll bet you didn't know it

[identity profile] redc1c4.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
but they caught you on tape firing the gun: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=827_1195142030

BTW: did you know that if you fire a 50 cal long enough, that you can see the bullets going down the barrel at night?

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[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I never played with M2HBs that much, so no. Sounds pretty cool though.

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[identity profile] redc1c4.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
except that you're close to barrel droop and having the round come out the side at that point, yeah, it's petty k3wl.....
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