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 ...
