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So, what'd you get to shoot when you were in?

TimJ

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If you served and are on here you probably like guns....so what did you get to shoot (and blow up, etc....) when you were in?

Me-
M-16A1
M-16A2
1911
1911A1
M-60
M-2 HB .50 cal
M-249 SAW (with the stock that looked like a FAL folder but didn't, all of ours were made in Belgium)
M-14 (both on the rifle team and as a DM in the DMZ)
M-3A1 Greasegun
M-72 LAW real and sub cal
M-136 (AT-4) real and sub cal
M-47 Dragon
M-18A1 Claymore
C-4
M-7 bayonet
M-9 bayonet
M-167 Vulcan (a short burst but it was AWESOME)
ETA- M203
RPK
AKM
Ak-47



Saw a few others, handled but not shot-
various shotguns (didn't really like them, don't remember who/what they were)
K-1 (ROK)
K-2 (ROK)
A rifle issued as an M-14A1 with the receiver marked "M-15". I shit you not. Issued to a guy in A 2/327 Inf prior to our deployment to the JRTC at Ft Chaffee AR in 1988. They called me over to see it as they had never heard of it and knew I was a gun guy. I don't recall if it had a heavier barrel or not...at the time our snipers were at the company level, 2 per. for JRTC they left their M-21's behind and were issued M-14A1's that were in the foil wrappers to use for the deployment.
 
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TimJ said:
A rifle issued as an M-14A1 with the receiver marked "M-15".
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The M15 was basically an early version of the M14A1. It wasn't around long since the M14A1 pretty much made it redundant.
 
M1903 Springfield rifle (carried in Boot Camp - kept clean but never fired)
1911A1
M1
BAR
M1A1 Thompson
M1919 .30 cal machine gun (unmounted)
M2 .50 cal machine gun (mounted)
MK 42 5"/54 caliber naval gun
RIM-24 Tartar SAM
 
M16A1
M16A2 (also w/ M203)
M4 (in the '90s, before they started Legoing things to them).
M9
M249
M60
M240B
60mm mortar
81mm mortar
55-gallon fougasse
Misc. platter charges
A thousand and one pieces of pyro, smoke, etc.

and...

The obligatory 2 frag grenades in Basic.

And a Mk 19, just five rounds or so. I also manned a turret with a .50 cal once, but never got to shoot it. I also got to do the CFF on the Wyoming National Guard's very first Copperhead mission; that was a thrill.
 
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Subbed to hear what you all shot that I didn't (never served).

oldyankee said:
M1903 Springfield rifle (carried in Boot Camp - kept clean but never fired)
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oldyankee said:
1911A1
M1
BAR
M1A1 Thompson
M1919 .30 cal machine gun (unmounted)
M2 .50 cal machine gun (mounted)
MK 42 5"/54 caliber naval gun
RIM-24 Tartar SAM
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BAR M1919 Tommy Gun. DROOL.
 
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Let's see...

M16A2 (with M203)
1911A1
M9 Beretta
M60
M249 SAW
M2
Mk19
M136 AT4 (real and sub caliber)
M870
M18A1 Claymores, frag grenades, C4 and det cord

Oh yeah, got to help fire a Mk 28 5 incher when stationed as MarDet on the Wisconsin. Got to experience the 16 inchers being fired too. Truly awe inspiring!


I'm sure there were others that I got to play with but I can't think of them now...
 
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All of the standard stuff plus:

MIM-23B HAWK surface to air missile. (Two of them...)
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M16A1
M16A2
M4
M1911
M9
M203
M2
M60
M249
M240
M242 25mm on a Bradley
155mm Howitzer
81mm mortar
frag grenades
M3 grease gun
a few claymores
 
started w 1911, then berretta, and finally carried the sig 226 during the last hurrah,

m16, m60 mk19 at4 years ago, mp5 and full auto m4 , rem 700 more recently.

familiarized w all the bad guys' AK variants including heavier crew served systems.

blew up a bunch of stuff but my proudest moment was back as an E4 - blowing up a shi+ house barrel (over in middle east) that I filled w JP1 cuz a senior nco ordered me to "burn the shi+" one too many times. it exploded into a huge mushroom cloud of fire and nastiness seen across the whole desert. :D
 
OIFer said:
started w 1911, then berretta, and finally carried the sig 226 during the last hurrah,

m16, m60 mk19 at4 years ago, mp5 and full auto m4 , rem 700 more recently.

familiarized w all the bad guys' AK variants including heavier crew served systems.

blew up a bunch of stuff but my proudest moment was back as an E4 - blowing up a shi+ house barrel (over in middle east) that I filled w JP1 cuz a senior nco ordered me to "burn the shi+" one too many times. it exploded into a huge mushroom cloud of fire and nastiness seen across the whole desert. :D
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Boom !
 
M-9 (sucked, hated that pistol)
Sig P229R-DAK (absolutely love it)
870
Newer 870's w/ 14" barrels
M-16A1
M-16A2
M-240B (fun to shoot, bitch to clean)
MP-5 (while using Pelican Bay's range, their range aster showed up with it and a case of ammo. Can't decline an invitation like that, would have been rude)
 
M60A1 Main Battle Tank: 105mm, M85 (50cal) COAX MG (308cal)
M2 (50 cal)
M60 mg
1911
M3 and M3A1 Grease Gun
M16
Law Rockets (while in Hohenfels, Germany my platoon was tasked with getting rid of (firing) somewhere around 200 - 300 law rockets) fired so many it became boring!
M79 and M203 grenade launchers
 
all your standard infantry weapons plus

Sig 226
MK18
MK12
M4 Block 2
MP5 SD
M249 SAW(suppressed)
LAW rocket
 
I carried a 1911 Remington Rand and the M60 machine gun most of the time. Did convoy duty once behind a 50 cal. The M14 was my favorite rifle. Never liked the plastic rifles back then. Oh, I also inherited a Smith and Wesson model 10 .38 caliber from a friend that rotated home. Taped the holster to my flack jacket with duct tape. It worked fine. Played with the M79 when needed as well as the Winchester 1897 when .308 ammo ran out a couple of times for a day or so. Fun with flechette rounds. Mr. Charles didn't like them very much. That's about it.
 
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another blowing stuff up story here, during gulf war up in Iraq we found a brand new Iraqi 5 ton truck abandoned w out fuel and keys in the middle of nowhere. I got it going and my LT says "unload it and lets use it."
turns out we should have checked the cargo earlier, because it was full of artilery shells that were just thrown in the back. The friggon LT still wanted the truck unloaded , but it gets better, the shells had all their fuses screwed in and were in a huge random pile. so we end up asking some engineers to blow the truck up and be done w it.

So here we were setting about a 1/4 mile away when the thing goes off.
I still remember seeing that 5 ton evaporate in an instant, w its tires and parts going about a thousand feet into the sky in every direction. Most of us who had been around knew enough to hit the ground when we saw how big the explosion was, but a lot of people just stood there until huge chunks of burning steel came raining down on us. This one guy never lived down his reaction of frantically running back and forth holding a book over his head and us shouting at him to lay the F down!
good times but what a shi+ show
 
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The M15 was basically an early version of the M14A1. It wasn't around long since the M14A1 pretty much made it redundant.
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Yup, I knew that before they showed me, being an avid reader of "Small Arms of the World" ;-) Was weird seeing one. IIRC they were supposed to have had a heavier barrel than the A1.
 
M1911
M14
M16
M79 Bloop Gun
LAAW
TOW
106mm RR
M870 mkI
M60
M2 60mm mortar
M29 81mm mortar
105 mm howitzer
 
I'll Play:

M16A2
M16A4
M4A1
M4A3
M203
AK-47
RPK
PKM
M14-DMR
MK11
MK12
M40A3
M21
M9
M45
MP5
P-90
M2
MK19
M240B
M240G
M249
C4 Breaching Charges
Explosive Cutting Tape
Thermite
AT-4
SMAW
LAW
RPG

If we are counting controls...

MANY 60-81mm Mortars via busy Mortar section
MANY 2.75 Rockets via Cobra
20mm Main Gun via Cobra
30mm via A-10
Several 500lb JDAMs via USMC Fixed wing
155mm Howitzer

Sure I am forgetting some stuff...
 
Dragon.......at4.........203....mk19......m60.......m1911.......m9.......m4.........m16........ma duece........m107........m249.......m240b........m110. That's about it

My favorite......will always be.......ma duece.......she will never let you down
 
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