My first job in the Army

[gridlore]

I carried one of these. 23lbs plus 800 rounds of ammo.

Damn, those things were fun!

Comments

[dafydd.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure someone has shown you this one, already. That weapon's come a long way...

[john-appel.livejournal.com]

First for you, last for me. As an E5 in the Scout Platoon I was supposed to fill a Bradley gunner slot, but the platoon sergeant asked another E5 & I who were ETSing not long after our next annual gunnery if we minded letting a couple of promising E4s take the gunner slots, since they'd be around longer, and we'd lead dismount teams. So my RTO would pack his M203, and I'd take either the M60 or my M16, depending on what we were dismounting to do.

PITA to lug but boy howdy, cut loose with a burst and watch the crunchies scramble for cover. :)

[caerbannogbunny.livejournal.com]

Got to fire one off the shoulder. Was surprised how doable it was. And how the balance was a bit better than the M249A1 SAW's. The one my National Guard section had was utterly reliable... but when they put it in a mount to test it and it grouped something like a foot and a half at whatever range they tested it. (100m or less), they took it away from us and gave us a temperamental one that wasn't shot all to shit...