Damn Steadfast. Didn't I see you on the history channel?Steadfast wrote:That was 34+ years ago for me. LOL
Using the T&E for Medium Machineguns
RGR Luna wrote:Damn Steadfast. Didn't I see you on the history channel?Steadfast wrote:That was 34+ years ago for me. LOL
Yes you did RGR Luna, but it was only my body. My mind has been wandering around here for weeks. Some of my buds were on T.V. along with Tom Selleck when a back to back show was done on 1.)Lurps and 2.)Recondo.
P.S. I tried to tell "Them" I didn't need Viagra b/c I was already a "dead stiff".
RLTW
Steadfast
4/325 82d DIV 68-69
2nd Bde HHC (LRRP), 4 ID
K Co (Rgr), 75th Inf (Abn), 4 ID
69-70
I cooked with C- 4
Steadfast
4/325 82d DIV 68-69
2nd Bde HHC (LRRP), 4 ID
K Co (Rgr), 75th Inf (Abn), 4 ID
69-70
I cooked with C- 4
I remember lots of drills also. Lots of defensive postion practice, range cards and all. I seem to remember leting the Mule (Ammo Bearer) carry the tripod and the AG carried the extra barrel kit, not sure about the T&E but I thing the AB carried it.
Quick story about the M60 as long as we are chating about it. We were in Yakima for a live fire. Tons of ammo, mostly small arms, 60 set up on tripod. I'm AG to Sgt. Stevens, I believe it was company sized. We had at least 1000 rnds for our gun and we are tearing it up out front. Between swaping cherry red barrel in and out of the gun I'm trying to put out the grass fires from the red hot barrels. Anyway we've had run aways a couple times, which should have prepared us for what happened next. Gun malfuntions... double feeds and stops. Now Stevens whips open the top to clear the double feed. Did I mention RED hot barrel. He sticks his finger in just as one of the rounds cooks off! BOOM! He reals back holding his mangeled finger, I fall over cause of the flash and catching some small pieces of brass in the face. Ammo Bearer heads for a medic while I'm trying to wrap up his finger. Before the medic gets there we decide to fire that beast up again. We are just getting ready to rock when our squad leader shows up and tells us to cease fire. He heard what happened and came running down and thank god he did. He pulls off the barrel to show us the round lodged in the barrel from the cook off. Wouldn't that have been interesting? :)
Sounds like a No Shit There I Was Story. Sorry just all the talk of the 60 made me remeber that!
Quick story about the M60 as long as we are chating about it. We were in Yakima for a live fire. Tons of ammo, mostly small arms, 60 set up on tripod. I'm AG to Sgt. Stevens, I believe it was company sized. We had at least 1000 rnds for our gun and we are tearing it up out front. Between swaping cherry red barrel in and out of the gun I'm trying to put out the grass fires from the red hot barrels. Anyway we've had run aways a couple times, which should have prepared us for what happened next. Gun malfuntions... double feeds and stops. Now Stevens whips open the top to clear the double feed. Did I mention RED hot barrel. He sticks his finger in just as one of the rounds cooks off! BOOM! He reals back holding his mangeled finger, I fall over cause of the flash and catching some small pieces of brass in the face. Ammo Bearer heads for a medic while I'm trying to wrap up his finger. Before the medic gets there we decide to fire that beast up again. We are just getting ready to rock when our squad leader shows up and tells us to cease fire. He heard what happened and came running down and thank god he did. He pulls off the barrel to show us the round lodged in the barrel from the cook off. Wouldn't that have been interesting? :)
Sounds like a No Shit There I Was Story. Sorry just all the talk of the 60 made me remeber that!
C 2/75, 1st Plt, Wpns Sqd 76-79
RS 3-78
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RS 3-78
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A 'Veteran' -- whether active duty, discharged, retired, or reserve --
is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America,' for an amount of 'up to, and including his life.'
Our team qualified for USAEUR M60 Comp in 86 and 87. Our T&E's were sloppy but they were the tightest in the company. We got the best shit as far as M60 gear/equip because next to Nijmegen, those fookers humped their ass off training for that shit, the M60 Comp was the highest speed comp. our battalion had. Yea, pretty sad even sadder was the fact that only the 19D could go to PLDC down in Tolz... anyway the "pushing your jaw to the right technique" was the norm for us. It was still unreliable though. Especially when they dropped that cover in front of you. You'd hit your marks and fire burst of 6 but had no fooking clue where they went... and in MOPP4...? forget itSpartan wrote:What I remember is that the T&Es we used had a lot of slop in the them and the only way you could make them work was by pushing the butt of the gun hard to the right with your jaw in order to maintain any consistency in how the T&E adjustments were made. If you did not do this and relied on the T&E to hold the gun in one position by itself, you couldn't hit a damned thing.
11B M60 gunner 1/36th Infantry Friedberg, West Germany 85-88
