Since I mentioned it yesterday...

[gridlore]

Here's the M-60 machinegun. 23lbs doesn't sound like much, but then you have to carry the thing over 15 miles of razorback ridges and brush. Oh, that firing from the strap thing? Pure Rambo. Half your rounds are going over the horizon if you do that. You get down, put the weapon on it's bipod, and lay down a curtain of fire - in 7 to 10 round bursts, of course - that skim in about a meter off the ground. Two M-60s (which is what an Infantry squad had back in my day) can create an impressive kill zone.

Machinegunners are traditionally known as "pigmen" in the Army.

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[gridlore.livejournal.com]

You carry a little more heft than I do (or did, at the time.) Humping the pig could be torture, but it did build me up for my time as a sniper. Switching from the 23lbs of a '60 to the 12lbs of a M-21 meant I wne tin used to having to control much more mass.