[servo1969]

What do you think? M224?

[al baby]

im thinking fort hood

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[Repeal The 17th]

I have fired the predecessor, the M2 60mm. It was replaced by this M224.
It is a very simple weapon, and not a whole lot that can go wrong.

Just pull the safety from the shell, place it into the top of the tube, let it go, and get yadamnself out of the way.
The shell hits the firing pin that sits the bottom of the tube, so off she goes.

Unless, that is, you have a misfire, in which case the standard procedure is that someone has to pick up the bottom of the tube while two other people get ready to very-very-carefully catch the round while the first person very-very-slowly tilts the tube up so that the misfired round can slide out into their waiting hands.

It is a scary situation that never gets any less scary no matter how many times you do it.

[The KG9 Kid]

I heard the round exploded in the tube. That means they double-stacked it or it cooked off because it was an improperly stored/manufactured round. Tube might have been borderline unserviceable, I suppose.

This was Weapons Co. 1/9. I was in a Weapons platoon in FMF, just not an 0341. Rest in Peace, Marines.

[Biggirl]

RIP.

[blueunicorn6]

7 dead? How big is a mortar crew for a 60mm mortar? Seven seems kind of large, and all dead? With light Infantry, you have some people there to carry ammunition, but would they all be standing around the tube? Maybe. I don’t know.