Goes double for me. Although you gotta wonder what they were planning on using to drop the spans - on second thought I don't really want to know :-)
Speaking of ma deuce, a friend of mine got an email that was circulating on the effectivness of the various weapons in Iraq. The comment on the M2 was something like "worth it's considerable weight in gold. really puts their dicks in the dirt"
That exact comment has been inscribed in the diary's of infantrymen since it's inception and particularly since WWII, but I think the M2 pre-dates that war.