3 Shot Burst, But How?

[E4 No More]

33 minutes ago, btq96r said:

 

While all the USMC units I've seen have been frugal and make the most of what they get (sometimes past the point of common sense), the Corps as a service also greatly benefits from having the Army being the lead proponent for research and development costs for shared items like weapons, vehicles, artillery systems, and other big ticket items that get rolled into the Army budgets. The Marines also save big time on paper with their size of their force being a fraction of the Army...one thing that rarely gets discussed is how personnel and family support costs are almost 50% of the total DoD budget.

Regardless, we're certainly getting our money's worth from the Corps.

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The Marine Corps gets their budget through the Navy and subsequently are sucking hind teat: therefore, they have to be smart with their money. The difference is clearly evident in something as inane as the chow hall. When I went to Tactical Nuclear Weapons School on Coronado I thought I was dreaming upon seeing steak and lobster on the menu. The only time that you saw steak in a Marine Corps' chow hall was on the Marine Corps Birthday, and you'd never see lobster.

In 1983, my 3rd 8" Howitzer Battery tested the red bag powder and ICM for the Army R&D. We had to use a 50' lanyard because they didn't know whether the hydraulics could handle the recoil of the new powder. One would think that the Army preferred to blow up a Marine Corps howitzer rather their own, but it actually made financial sense. The gun range at 29 Palms was the largest, and it's better to damage equipment that's already there than to transport equipment there to destroy. It was all good because the hydraulics held up just fine. 

[btq96r]

8 hours ago, SWJewellTN said:

We had to use a 50' lanyard because they didn't know whether the hydraulics could handle the recoil of the new powder.

That's one of those military moments where you can hear the Looney Tunes theme playing in your head as you do what you're told.

[Rightwinger]

Got to see the box, never the equipment or lanyard but we had a "special" box for the M198's in our unit in Korea.  I heard the lanyard was longer than 50 feet.  And you had to be in a hole with so much earth or stone between you to pull it.....

I was they guy that snapped a cookie and told em if they were ever gonna have to pull it.

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11 hours ago, btq96r said:

That's one of those military moments where you can hear the Looney Tunes theme playing in your head as you do what you're told.

LOL!

My thought was, what good would it do you to have a 50' lanyard when the 18,000 lbs tube came flying back at you?