ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge
Depends, what kind of Jarhead are you ?
0311, Plt Sgt, in a time, far, far away, and long ago too !!!!
HARD_Sarge
ORIGINAL: carnifex
Depends, what kind of Jarhead are you ?
Obviously the correct answer is "A rifleman first, Sir!"
ORIGINAL: Jarhead0331
ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge
Depends, what kind of Jarhead are you ?
0311, Plt Sgt, in a time, far, far away, and long ago too !!!!
HARD_Sarge
0311...0331...it doesn't make a difference...so long as you're a Grunt...you're good to go...There are bound to be some REMF pogues lurking nearby though...
ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge
well, when I was in, guess who had to carry them from boys ?
the grunts did the hauling
ahhh,remember one time, I had to carry two of them
but then, being a 6 footer when the norm was 5-5,5-7 had its draw backs
240, that the Maw right ? we didn't have that, back in my day, we were just coming out of the black powder ages when I was in
ahhhh
what was nice was the M-79, just when it was my job to carry it, we changed to the M-203, man what a pig that was, Army didn't want em anymore and we couldn't sell them overseas, so the Marines got them
M-16s were nice in training, but, give me a M-14
but just ragging, you know, Old Corps and all
HARD_Sarge
A 1/8 2nd Marine Div, 1973-77
ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge
ahh, just remember to a Marine, if they are dated March of 73 and you are april 73, they are Old Corps
I thought the 240 was the 223 GPMG they are using now ? (rusty on some of the newer stuff)
which I thought that was called the MAW (like I said, I am much better anymore on old stuff then on new stuff)
LOL I remember I was picked to join the 60 mikemike team when it was decided to bring it back into action, I was the only one big enough to carry the thing, we went over seas, and it was decided to wait till the float was over before we went back to making it full TO@E
get back and they decide, since it is a Crew weapon it should go to Weapons Plt, and of course, then they decide, that it is too heavy to carry, so the 60 Mikemike team got a track all there own, or a jeep, or they did not bring it to the field
dang, that bugger was heavy too
HARD_Sarge
ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge
best part of being a 6 foot Marine was playing football on the weekends !!!!!! used to run for 6-7 TDs a game, and I run like a Truck,
HARD_Sarge
ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge
LOL
well, I was going to get to that part
the manuel for the 60 mm says, it comes in 3 easy carry parts (4 if you count the sight) base plate, barrel, and bypod, of course the brains, figured out, why break it down, when you could carry the whole thing at one time (if you got someone who looks like a mule)
overall, think it was still only 45 pounts, but, there is no easy way to carry it, toss it on your shoulder and the barrel eats into your shoulder, carry it in your arms and no more arms, at least we never went very far with it, or would of had to try some straps
ahh okay, the 249 is what I was thinking, hmm have to look up the 240G, didn't know they replaced the M-60
that was a good MG, only they slowed the ROF down too much
C-rations sound good to me . Whens dinner time?ORIGINAL: Zap
Never served in the military so its hard to follow your posts. But once you started talking food now thats something I can follow
MOPP?
