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June 11th, 2009, 08:30 PM
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#1 | | Snappin In
Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Okinawa, Japan
Posts: 24
| USMC Crew Served Weapons
M2 .50 Cal and M240 G 
"Ma Duce" 
Mk-19 40MM Grenade Launcher 
Indoor Simulator M2 
Indoor Simulator M240 G 
Indoor simulator M249 SAW
just thought these would be fun for everyone to see!  
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June 11th, 2009, 10:15 PM
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#2 | | Platoon Commander
Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Denver, CO, USA
Posts: 485
|  Thank You!
Yes, that was fun. Mind you, I'm envious of the lucky Leathernecks who get to play with those marvelous toys!
Best!
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June 12th, 2009, 09:49 AM
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#3 | | MGySgt USMC (ret)
Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Virginia
Posts: 4,557
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How are the Model 240 G's working out? When I transferred from 1st Marine Division in 1994, we had not gotten them in yet.
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June 12th, 2009, 11:29 AM
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#4 | | Squad Leader
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Orygun
Posts: 264
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Originally Posted by Gus Fisher  How are the Model 240 G's working out? When I transferred from 1st Marine Division in 1994, we had not gotten them in yet. | I liked them. Unfortunately, they have already been replaced with the Bravo which is a heavier version with rails and a hand guard as seen in the bottom of the first pic. The rails are to mount IR lasers/lights and I've even seen one guy with a flashlight mounted on the end of his, but I don't think he knew what he was doing. It's not like you're going to shoulder one and clear a building with it.
Personally, I loved the Golf because I see the hand guard as unnecessary as well as the rail system for the most part. The 240 Bravo hovers just under 30 lbs while the Golf was closer to 24 or 25 if I remember correctly. That's 5 pounds of ammo I could be carrying instead of 5 pounds of gear queer star trek BS. The only good improvement to the bravo is the hydraulic buffer that they've thrown in.
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July 4th, 2009, 07:09 AM
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#5 | | Master Gunner
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: The US of A
Posts: 894
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The more I watch the military the older I feel.
Gone are my woodland cammies and black cadillacs, gone is my M1911 (well it was actually on the way out when I was in boot camp), gone is my familiar M60E3. gone is my 782 gear and familiar Alice.
I wouldn't recognize a radio anymore....a sing what?
Well at least they didn't go with stupid berets like the army.
I did see some of the FN MG's in the M60 tanks but I never fired one.
Time is marching on!
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July 5th, 2009, 06:59 AM
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#6 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Yuma, AZ
Posts: 557
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Originally Posted by Nut behind the stock Well at least they didn't go with stupid berets like the army. | Don't get me started on that GAY French pastry chef hat.... 
I have been hoping that every Chief of Staff since Shinseki would s**t-can that stupid thing, but they must be worried about stepping on another ring-knocker's toes.
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July 5th, 2009, 02:55 PM
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#7 | | NSRA
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: NC
Posts: 2,389
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Agree Nicolas, making troops wear a Beret, " Because it will motovate them". Wore one as Paratrooper for long time, and yeah they are useless. PC much better.
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July 11th, 2009, 07:43 AM
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#8 | | Lifer
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Tampa
Posts: 3,290
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I don't know if the USMC is getting them, but the Army is beginning to replace the MK19 MOD 3 with the MK47. The best thing about this replacement is that it weighs almost half of what the MK-19 weighs. You can read more about it at http://www.gdatp.com/Products/PDFs/MK47.pdf.
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October 12th, 2009, 08:01 PM
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#9 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Northern KY
Posts: 1,251
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Originally Posted by nicholst55 Don't get me started on that GAY French pastry chef hat....
I have been hoping that every Chief of Staff since Shinseki would s**t-can that stupid thing, but they must be worried about stepping on another ring-knocker's toes. | +1 I don't like the look either of the French pasty chef hat. I never wore one and never will. I would jion the Marines if I were 18 again just not wear that silly thing.
My MOS was 63S and NOT 11B so I never wanted a beret.
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October 15th, 2009, 10:52 AM
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#10 | | Automatic Rifleman | Quote:
Originally Posted by nicholst55 Don't get me started on that GAY French pastry chef hat....
I have been hoping that every Chief of Staff since Shinseki would s**t-can that stupid thing, but they must be worried about stepping on another ring-knocker's toes. | I am a chef, trained in france, and if you wore one of those you got your ### kicked in the walk in. 
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October 21st, 2009, 08:01 AM
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#11 | | Snappin In
Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: ohio
Posts: 15
| beret
Never cared for it either. I remember the official donning day, my morale meter did nothing. More of a pain, especially in the motorpools down south, but gotta do what you're told
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November 2nd, 2009, 04:06 PM
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#12 | | Snappin In
Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 16
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I'd love to have an 'indoor simulator' Ma deuce for my living room... 
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April 3rd, 2010, 08:10 PM
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#13 | | Squad Leader
Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Virginia
Posts: 249
| Izlid maybe?
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Originally Posted by CE1371 The rails are to mount IR lasers/lights and I've even seen one guy with a flashlight mounted on the end of his, but I don't think he knew what he was doing. It's not like you're going to shoulder one and clear a building with it. | Could have been an IZLID laser pointer. We use them on our GAU-21's. Some of the earlier ones have uncanny resemblences to flashlights. But it's a class IV laser that can illuminate a target from over a mile away. Comes with a skin hazard too...
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April 3rd, 2010, 08:26 PM
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#14 | | Rifleman
Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Michigan
Posts: 55
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Originally Posted by CE1371 I liked them. Unfortunately, they have already been replaced with the Bravo which is a heavier version with rails and a hand guard as seen in the bottom of the first pic. The rails are to mount IR lasers/lights and I've even seen one guy with a flashlight mounted on the end of his, but I don't think he knew what he was doing. It's not like you're going to shoulder one and clear a building with it.
Personally, I loved the Golf because I see the hand guard as unnecessary as well as the rail system for the most part. The 240 Bravo hovers just under 30 lbs while the Golf was closer to 24 or 25 if I remember correctly. That's 5 pounds of ammo I could be carrying instead of 5 pounds of gear queer star trek BS. The only good improvement to the bravo is the hydraulic buffer that they've thrown in. | I loved the golf myself too! Nothing better in the world!
One difference between the Golf and the Bravo is the number of settings inthe gas regulator. We got a couple Bravos in when we had to replace a couple Golfs and they only had one gas regulator setting. I don't know why they did that.
But recently I talked with someone who had a bravo with 3 settings, but I think the Bravo could be coming standard with only 1.
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August 2nd, 2010, 10:02 PM
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#15 | | Grunt
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Delaware
Posts: 96
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Originally Posted by msinabottle Yes, that was fun. Mind you, I'm envious of the lucky Leathernecks who get to play with those marvelous toys!
Best! | ...but not the Marines that get to clean them!!!
i was a Jarhead but i have to say out of respect for the Rangers and everything that fighting force represents i consider it pure CRAP that they now hand out black berets to every soldier that finishes basic
what a way to piss on history. imo it would be like giving a double bubble to everyone who jumped off the high dive and swim qual'd in boot camp.
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