Weapons
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The Marines use the M240G. That's as of 2009. We prefer good solid arms over cool tech.
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Cpl Jared Walker
Actually my unit was issued the 240G in 1997. Got them right out of the packaging crate, not sure if it was service wide at the time, but it was issued to us mid summer 1997 in Okinawa (Camp Hansen) 1/5.
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The M240G is easier to field strip and clean. The M60 was so old that parts were loose and jams were common in its last years.
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Yes, the M240 and of course the M2 are both Crew Served and both tripod and vehicle mounted, as well as the M249.
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I know they have the SAW which uses 5.56 natio rounds similar feed similar rate of fire
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I can't speak for the Marine Corps, but this is the tripod we use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M192_Lightweight_Ground_Mount
The way I was taught to use it, the gunner fires the weapon and the A gunner loads the weapon, and adjusts the T&E. I found it to be much more effective than the bipod.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M192_Lightweight_Ground_Mount
The way I was taught to use it, the gunner fires the weapon and the A gunner loads the weapon, and adjusts the T&E. I found it to be much more effective than the bipod.
M192 Lightweight Ground Mount - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The M192 Lightweight Ground Mount is a tripod fielded by the United States armed forces. It was designed and developed by Capco, Incorporated under contract through Picatinny Arsenal to replace the M122 tripod.[1] The United States Army named the tripod one of 2005's top ten inventions.[1] It was designed for use with the M249, M240B, and M240E6.
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Maj John Bell - The M249 fires the 5.56. The M240 fires the 7.62. In my company, the M249s are automatic weapons, and the M240s are crew serves. However, some companies have the M249 MTOEd as a light machine gun, and then it would be tripod fired as well. The Marine Corps recently replaced the M249 with the M27 infantry Automatic Rifle. It is basically a heavy barrel M16. Which of course means, it can't be used in the light machine gun role. However they do still have the M240.
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Maj John Bell
My particular concern is a local kid just completed his service as a Marine rifleman (0311). He told me that he never saw Machine Gunners (0331s) use a Machine Gun on a tripod with a T&E. He didn't even know they had such a thing as a T&E. No T&E was automatic gun drill for an hour when I had a weapons platoon.
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SSG (Join to see)
Yea that figures a lot of new infantry privates just coming out of AIT have never used certain prices of equipment and they don't have to pas the APFT in order to graduate... Platoon Sergeants now say that it is up to the gaining unit to train up the new privates which is unacceptable in my opinion. The service is becoming weaker and weaker with each graduating class.
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Maj John Bell
SSG (Join to see) - IMHO if there is only two people left to fire a weapon and there is ammunition for it a crew-served Machine Gun on a tripod with a T&E is that weapon. Every man in every unit I commanded knew what a T&E was for and how to use it. Whenever we got attachments, they didn't leave the CP until they knew how to use it.
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The M60 is being used in limited service it's still around manly serveing with Reserve & Special Operations units . The M240 is allot better option.
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