Post Marine fuckups
>>65541345how?>>65541347then fuck off back to /pol/
>>65541345I would have assumed the tolerances were designed specifically to make that impossible.
>>65541345What is this? Do those cartridges come on a stripper clip this guy managed to hammer in there? I don't get it
>>65541347fpwp>>65541386you tell em brother
>>65541345
Isn't that how you load crayons??
united states mexican corps
>>65541387>"Make something idiot-proof and the universe will just spawn a better idiot."
>>65541345how the fuck?
>>65541345is this one of those clipazines i keep hearing of?
>>65541345This fucking piece of shit
>>65541397>What is this?in US military, the 5.56 ammo come packaged in the crate in counts of 20 in stripper clips- similar to Vietnam era. They are meant to attach to the end of the aluminum magazines with a steel dowel so you can load it quickly. But Muhreens gunna debildog and tried to load it like that in a modern Magpul PMAG which flexes.
>>65541345Out-fucking-standing. That is 2nd Lt materiel right there.
And let's not forget this retardation
>>65541345What? It's just an ordinary old magazi- OH MY GOODNESS!
>>65541607whys it retarded?
>>65541622You obviously have never conversed with a 1812.
>>65541601Why is the bullet circumcised
>>65541645It's a penetration thing, you wouldn't understand.
>>65541589>take the bottom plate off>put the clip inside>le epic troll
>>65541599best gun in US inventory right now
>>65541645Old style green tip = fragments about 60% of the time based on random details, so there are different stories of it blowing up versus icepicking depending on what day it wasModern style circumcised tip = always fragments
>>65541622Marines took one look at the prospect of a future war with a peer adversary (China, as retarded as they are) and decided "ackshully, we don't need no tanks, air support and long-range missiles will do all the work for us!"I can understand wanting to downsize from tank battalions to companies or even transitioning from the M1 Abrams to something like the M10 Booker or the Stingray (trading protection for lighter weight and compact size) but getting rid of tanks entirely is the last thing you should do because you lose all of the institutional knowledge and infrastructure to operate tanks at all.
>>65541737>dude just ignore 80 years of proven infantry tactics and replace every M249 with a rifle, we totally won't get fucking slaughtered by Chinks and Iranians who still have LMGs at the squad level, lmaoYeah I'd rather just keep the M4s
>>65542409You've never used a 249. Theyre fucking dog shit and any war that requires any strain on logistics won't be able to keep them running after the first year
>>65542428>Theyre fucking dog shit and any war that requires any strain on logistics won't be able to keep them running after the first year
>>65542428This right here! >>65542439Pictured: a soldier with the best logistics tail any military has ever seen.
>>65542428Is that every piece of equipment that's going to be used heavily?
>>65542455The M249 is a high maintenance bitch of low reliability. I broke mine in with fine sand thrown in the action, 30 weight oil, and a few belts and she ran okay afterwards. Always said a quick prayer before sending some lead though.
>>65542428>>65542444>>65542477I was Army so I only have outside opinions, but it seemed to me that the Marines had this fucking fanatical obsession with making things harder than they should be, like making obviously worn machine guns run "just one more belt bro". I honestly felt sorry for you guys, you always looked miserable:/
>>65542524Semper Gumby. Here's the kicker my SAW was brand spanking new.
>>65542534Crazy.Maybe whatever deity or force that controls the levers of lives just has it out for the USMC.
>>65542537We enjoy it.
>>65541737The M27 is shit. Not that a piston AR is necessarily a bad idea, but how the fuck do you make it 13lbs unless you were actively trying to. Nearly 50% heavier than the supposed boat anchor M16A4, what the fuck.
>>65542544Heavy barrel heavy rail system and the weight of an answer in search of a question
>>65541345Asvab Waiver activities.
>>65541599>t. Sigger
>>65541599>>65542409>>65542544249 is a fucking pig, especially for caliber.Her older sister is a fat bitch too, but at least she's got REAL FUCKIN NATO sized cans.
>>65541345>Marine fuckupsNot joining the Army instead.
>>65542567>ArmyI did that, I should joined the Air Force
>>65542570*should have
>>65542544Its a pseudo lmg autorifle thing you want it to be heavy
>>65542551Not necessarily. I did that twice while sleep deprived with a 127 GT score.
>>65541645Because it allows deeper penetration and satisfaction for the w-oh you mean the bullet.
>>65542409The M249 is a failed concept, a "intermediate" caliber machine gun is nothing more than a waste of time, either make more FN MAG's or PKM's stop trying to make RPD's or Stoner 63's.
>>65541645Because jewish women can't resist anything half-off.
>>65542624>foreskin >halfJESUS CHRIST WHAT THE FUCK!?!?
>>65541345>The Marine Corps: If you think you hit rock bottom, we'll give you a jackhammer.
>>65542402oh I didnt know the post was about ending it I thought it was saying marines having armor in the first place was the retarded part.
>>65542402The Marines were absolutely correct. The United States Marine Corps is the most forward thinking military organization in human history, with the earliest prediction being the "Small Wars Manual" a in detail guide to combating insurgents. The second being "modern" amphibious doctrine, without which the US Army would have suffered defeat akin to the British Army at Gallipoli. The Marines didn't stop there, using the time between WW2 and the Korean War to develop more doctrines that was 100% correct while the Army went full "NOOK OOOK" so far they completely neglected the very reason they existed. The "airmobile" doctrine that the Army used to salvage their very existence was pioneered by the Marines, such was the utter failure of the Army. The United States Army is a utter failure in nearly every case in US history.
>>65542402I'd defend that decision, actually. Doctrinally it doesn't make much sense for them to have tanks, imo. If we want them to be an amphibious advance force primarily tasked with creating and holding beachheads until the main force (army) arrives, tanks (and anything that can't be easily amphibiously deployed for that matter) don't really fit with that role.And if that isn't their role, then they are effectively just Army 2 and fairly redundant
>>65543000nta but the only real downside is not getting to see pic rel any more. very cool to witness these things buzzing back and forth in person.
>>65541601>20rd stripper clipwrong
>>65543183I meant 10 my bad G it was a delirious afternoon
>>65543110LCACs can deliver more than just tanks. And the new version is even bigger.
>>65541601This shit happens when you load the proper way, retard. The problem isn't the operator, its that the rounds bound up on the stripper clip and it ended up getting pushed into the mag. I've seen it with USGI mags, I've seen it with magpuls, I've seen it with HK steel mags, the problem is almost universally the clip itself.
>>65542477Fucktard, you're running several hundred rounds through a MG in the span of 20-30 minutes. The M249 was never unreliable, you chose to either not clean it, PMCS it properly, or necer learned how to load the fucking thing properly.It takes 30 seconds to take a M249 down to pieces, 60 to wipe down the main bits, spritz in some CLP or slap on some monkey jizz, and another 30 to put it bacm together. EIB/ESB expects you to take it down and put together in 4.Stop being a little bitch and clean your fucking weapon.
>>65542402Eh, I'll defend it if only because it makes them tactically different to the army. I mean without armor they can achieve a much greater degree of mobility and have more money to put into their aviation assets, which I think is their greatest strength (and why the Key West Agreement is gay and retarded, fuck you chair force go back to being part of the army)
>>65542428Leaving aside whether the gun sucks or not, is the move to the IAR better for Marine infantry units or would they be better off with the 249? Guys I've heard say the IAR is great to use, but I can't tell if they actually think its a better fit or just like carrying a lighter weapon because I'm a retard civvy.
>>65546829Not him but the one I had needed a new gas tube or something because damn I got good at clearing malfunctions. Thing never got hot enough to risk a cook off which gave me some bad habits
>>65543110How expensive are these to purchase and operate? They look cool
>>65541601I didn't understand a word of what you've said.
>>65541601I got laughed at in ITB for doing this. Sgt called me a bitch and told me to use my thumbs because I wouldn't have a table in combat... I never ran into a situation in which I was loading mags in the middle of a fight.
>>65541607Look at how well Russian tanks are fairing in Ukraine. Now replace Ukraine with an ant colony that can give all its people peanuts for them to churn out drones at the same rate jeets shit on streets.It looks stupid on paper, I understand the sentiment. But, it would be a fucking slaughter if we ever get hot with China and send in armor. Look down on them all you want but they have crazy industrial power.
>>65542428Have you tried buying new onesOr having your old clapped out ones overhauled by the manufacturer every 30k rounds?
>>65546829I cleaned that thing with absolute certainty even got the knod of approval from the battalion Gunner. It was a problem gun until I broke it in and it proceeded to run like a freshly raped ape just in time for deployment. Suck me, doggy.
>>65547159To add on to that the reason the battalion Gunner got involved is because they were about to shit-can that unit and issue me a new one because even the armors stated I was doing what I was supposed to. In Gunner's words, "We're going to fuckin' war and if anybody's got a problem with it I got 10,000 neatly stacked I don't give a fucks in my right hip pocket."
