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Consider that this large, powerful "phallus of destruction" seems to call to & empower the "mechanically impotent".


Remember the first time you fired a machine gun as young man?
 
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Remember the first time you fired a machine gun as young man?

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Man, do I!!!!!
 
I thought it was kind of a let down.
 
Ah, but Jack - did you ever get to just stand up & Rambo a full belt through an M-60?
 
Noop, that I did not do. The stand up part. Mine was mounted on a vehicle and I was ****. They said I put 6 belts in the small group of trees. My loader was cambodian and just laughed the whole time. Ahh, there was no small group of trees left, no one went to see what happened to the sniper who killed my vehicle. Vehicle was an embasy armored chevy, some armor. Was way south paying the troops.
 
I remember we had this 40 year old Spec-4 that went by the name BDT. (Big Dumb Thing)

He used an improvised sling & lit off 6 rounds out of a 50 cal.

We were unsupervised a lot back then.
 
Boy did this thread take a wrong turn! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Anyway - while I never shot any of them in anger – I must have put thousands upon thousands of 7.62mm rounds down the barrels of many an M60. All with a gunners belt hanging out the side of a Huey on gun runs. Oh sure I’ve fired a couple of Maw-deuces & GAU-2Bs, And they are all way cool (especially the Mini!) - but the 60 by far I have the most trigger time on.

The trick I discovered was to get tight with the ordnance guys & they hooked me up a hand picked M60 and showed me a couple of tricks to avoid jams (unnerving to say the least – try’n clear a jam hanging out the side of a bird doing 100knots). Anyway of the three aircraft on one of my more memorable runs, my M60 was the only one that didn’t jam once. Every time the starboard gun would jam they’d slide another box of ammo over to me on my side of the aircraft and I just kept on rock’n & roll’n. If the crewchief wasn’t able to clear the gun & had to swap-it out – I got two boxes!

Of course at the end of the day when we returned my flight suit, gloves & helmet where black with LSA grease. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif That was cool!
 
We have a $20,000,000,000 Gun Registry up here, so I can't read any of those above posts about weapons. Sorry

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Paul
 
heh... I think the most fun full auto weapon i've fired was a Mk19... talk about making things go boom! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

I was on the .50 cal team for my company unfortunately I never got to go shooting *OUR* .50, but I certainly got to clean it a lot... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif I remember one of my shop SSgts was being a smart arse and stuck his finger down in front of the bolt face while I was cleaning the barrel on a different bench... I turned to pick something up off the other bench and I heard the bolt slide home... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif when I turned back around there he was with his middle finger trapped by the bolt of that .50 cal. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif he broke it... I think he enjoyed flipping everyone off for the next 6 weeks... heh but the pain he felt in that moment was one of those that hurt so bad he couldn't make a sound.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

on the up side, he never came around being a smart arse or nosey in my work areas again... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
Brett - did ya ever "swing on the bungee cord" while up in that Huey?
 
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Nope! But that was no thanks to the pilots - always seemed when we was hangingout there they where actually try'in to.

Now we did do some insertions with spec OPs folks (Marine Recon, Rangers & SEALS). I still shutters whenever I think about the crazy stuff they’d do back then. The idea of jump’ in out of a perfectly good aircraft on a static line still seems unnatural to me.

The wildest thing I think I ever saw back then was some Marine Recon guys loading themselves inside the tail-end of an OV-10 Bronco. Not sure what genius thought this one up but what they’d do was to pull the tail cone off the center fuselage & cram four fully loaded Recons types with about 80lbs of weapons & gear with a statically overstated parachute. Always seemed to me that anybody doing that would have to be a pretty tight (pardon the pun) outfit to endure such close quarters.

Anyway as they’d approach the drop zone the Bronco would come in at treetop level and at the last minute clime up to a safe height. Now there was no way the four “para” recon guys could ever hope to extract themselves so the OV-10 pilot would put the aircraft on its tail (strait up) and gravity would do the rest. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Like I said – insane! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazyeyes.gif
 
omg... brings a whole new meaning to the term "fall out!"... heheh
 
Minigun. Mounted. UH-1... bright pink flashes from green-green jungle, accompanied by dull "thup" noises at odd timing to the rotor noise... li'l round spots of daylight inna hull... that brass was undrefoot everyplace. "SHORT bursts, Smitty! SHORT BURSTS!!" thru th' headset... Adrenalin wuz oozin' out from under me FINGERNAILS. We didn't stay around for an assessment of my marksmanship. Doubt it was much good.
 
C-A-L-M, Doc, CALM....breath deep, relax, feel your fingertips
 
Ahhh, machine guns ... a boy's ultimate toy! Although I too never fired one in anger, I did get to 'play' with most of them while I was in the Cavalry - did the Rambo thing with the M60, fired 1000 rounds thru a Ma Duece at a taget 3/4th of a mile away at a taget range in Wiesbaden (kinda kewl watching the tracers 'float' into that old Sherman at sunset), fired the main gun on an Abrams, did live-fire with a TOW missle. Biggest kick for me was firing the 30mm chain gun on the then brand new Bradley - that thing can flat chew up some scenery in a heartbeat! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif
 
Ray - I may be in Wiesbaden this summer - for first time since the late 70's.
 
Too kewl Tony! I'd love an opportunity to go back and see the country again - Wiesbaden, Fulda, Bad Hersfeld. I was there in the '80s myself. What unit were you with?
 
Black, Ray, black..but I can say we were "special weapons" & the Bader Meinhoff Gang was on our list.
 
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