One of the most dramatic “pucker factor” sounds in combat is the M-2. It is a morale booster on the firing end of it and a morale breaker on the other. Will the new 50 have that same distinctive tsook, tsook, tsook? And, in spite of what John Kerry says - you know he served in Vietnam - I never saw anyone “wounded” by a .50 cal.
I have.... oh that's right. He was hit and wounded in the forearm..and his hip got blown out after the bullet went through his arm and out the other end...
You're right, he died. Nevermind.
A father of a friend of mine was hit with six rounds and lived to tell the tale. He spent several months in VA hospitals learning to walk again, years of surgery, and then years more kicking the painkillers that allowed him to survive the above. .
He was a Marine hitching a ride on an Army Huey. One of his fellow passengers was a VC colonel being taken for interrogation. The prisoner, his hands still shackled, managed to seize the wait gun and turn it to the inside of the chopper.
The VC colonel wasn't ever interrogated. From what I hear, it wasn't the fall that killed him so much as the abrupt stop at the end of it.
Put 4 of those bad boys together in VN and you had
a quad 50,if you had a brave man in the seat it was
astounding what it`d do when there was incoming.
The `45 Colt,Ma Deuce ,B-52,some things just seem to work
“I never saw anyone “wounded” by a .50 cal.”
Well I did. Don’t know how or why she wasn’t dead, but we took her SKS rifle away from her, tried to stop the bleeding and then got her a medicac helo to a hospital in Saigon. All I can say is that it wasn’t her time to die. Three 50 cal in the chest and nothing lethal. I’ll bet she’s got a mean scar today, but she’s probably still walkin’ around.