[elcid1970]

Uh...does an M-60 fire any other way?

Anyway, I’ll see your M-60 and raise you one M-249, fired from the hip, got to use out all this ammo. Awesome!

I’ve called it the “fun gun” ever since.

[BlueLancer]

For my first three years in the Army, I was part of C Company, 2/12 Cavalry, 1st Cav Div. Started off as airmobile, training as a door gunner and dismounted M-60 gunner; then we were shifted to mech infantry and I was still the M-60 gunner (at 5'6" and 135 pounds). I carried that pig for three years, before my promotion to SGT/E5.

Over in Germany, at Hohenfels, our platoon was brought on-line for a live fire exercise. There were four M-60s in the platoon, one for each squad and one in the HQ element. We were given 1000 rounds to fire off, every fifth round a tracer round.

By the end of the exercise, I was the only M-60 gunner still firing; the other weapons had jammed or had some other sort of failure, so all of their ammo was transferred to me.

I must have fired off close to 4000 rounds, in three to 10 round bursts, and swapped out the barrel once. That was the most fun that I had ever had with my clothes on ...