New Marine Corps weapon to replace SAW

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Combined with fire discipline, and aimed controlled bursts on target indicators, the high sectional density bullets would make certain mud walls into only "concealment", while they are in fact "cover" with 5.56.

That's something I've wondered about for quite awhile. The mud walls I have seen in Afghan combat videos look rather thick for 6.5mm bullets to defeat. Another test that should be done?

When he started feeding from his Camelbak, he had used up many of the bags on his fighting load already by praying and spraying. I would see this a lot when an M60, SAW, or 240 gunner that was tired from carrying all the weight finally got a chance to return fire.

Some things never change. When my buddy was a 60 gunner in RVN, he would fire up his ammo on contact. However, he enjoyed shooting, so any excuse to burn large quantities of gunpowder was welcome.

And in contrast to the troops in this video, when he was a rifleman he always took a copious amount of grenades on patrol, usually stuffing his trousers cargo pockets with as many frags as they would hold. It made walking a bit of a chore, but he loved using grenades in a fight.