Best/Favorite Military Weapons

Damnit, misquote. Meant to quote the person who's favorite was an AR.

 

firing off-axis for the win.

 

Favorite military weapon I've ever shot: MG-42
Favorite that I own: M14 (M1A, actually)
The best military weapon? A FAC on the ground with a good radio.

 

Best Weapon
A Marine with his K Bar

 

For sure, those MREs aren't going to open themselves.

 

I saw the K Bar my kids were issued before going to Iraq. I then went out and bought them good knives.

K Bars are proof that you get what you pay for when you select the lowest bidder.

 

P-47, P-38, A10, M1A1

 

Crazysccrmd... you are a youngster...i ate C Rats for 13 months long before MRE's were a wet dream in some ones mind. Your correct K Bars are used to open C Rats.

Jeepnik....I'm surprised that an Air Cadet even knows what a K Bar is. Is it true , the air force only serves two flavors of Ice Cream at chow?

 

As I stated I saw the crap the USMC issued. As to ice cream, back in 1971, you’re right. The soft serve machines only had vanilla and chocolate.

 

Bangalore torpedo

 

I used an SR25 with a match trigger in it. A lot of my buddies had 16-inch stainless tubes on their guns with match triggers as well.
usually on Afghanistan guns, we needed additional reach in that terrain

 

use a chamber brush and switch ammunition.

I've experienced the same with an M2, we changed barrels and switched cans. In contact.

 

That’s cuz you’re a Tier one special operator. I was just an under trained 18 yo kid. Oh that and we didn’t have spare barrels, broken shell extractors and such.

Then too, even if I’d have had such things I doubt they’d let me call a time out for the half hour I watched the armorer take to fix it.

I suppose I could watch Seal Team or play a video game and learn all I would need to be a “special “ kind of guy.

 

I am neither attempting to aggrandize or aggravate when I say this:

My drill sergeant in basic training taught me how to treat that malfunction

 

No K bar but I lost this once upon a time in a land far, far away.

 

I had one. DPMS. When I was a contractor. The lack of a giggle switch didn't bother me- I never used it when I was in the mil.

 

Funnest to shoot? M134, just cause. Most useful in a fight? MK47 AGL. What I used when it mattered the most? M4 w/ MK18 upper and all the flair, and a G19. I don't really know aircraft- other than how to open doors, operate the seat belts, check anchor line cables, attach and release fast ropes, retrieve static lines- stuff like that. And how to request for them to make things go boom. Never was invited into the front seat and never wanted to be in one anyway.

 

Ma Deuce!!!

 

M-134 or GAU-19. Lots of hate going down range with those bad units.

 

A-10 Warthog