Dual wielding M249s

[Cassius]

Most likely because SF weapons sergeants learn how to shoot anything with a trigger, from the most mundane to the most high-tech.

That video was awesome, made my day.

As for the interchangable magazine bit, yeah the M249 does have a place where you can slap in one of your 16 mags if you run out of ammo with the drum. The shitty part is, it tends to jam a lot easier using a mag than a drum though. The 240 can be pretty heavy after a while, if I remember right it weighs somewhere around 27 pounds. Definitely better to hump one of those fuckers around though compared to a Mark 19. The gun alone weighs 168 or so, add in the ammo and the tripod and you have a group of very unhappy Marines.

The Mark 19 is only about 80 pounds, but it is also the coolest thing ever.

[Phrost]

Bean Burrito MRE? Jambalaya? What in the blue ****?

When I enlisted we still had the Omlette with Ham and Chicken ala King. Both were mysteriously tinted green if I remember correctly.

[Phrost]

The Mark 19 is only about 80 pounds, but it is also the coolest thing ever.

I was at a range in Panama where a female soldier picked off a crow perched on one of the metal range border signs using a MK 19. It was beautiful... *thwunk*, *pop*, *feathers*.

[DerAuslander]

I've had the jambalaya.

It's decent.

The vegetarian meal sucks though.

EDIT: I'm not sure I'd trust a bean burrito MRE.

[Gezere]

Since I've been running MOUT training for the last 2 months I've been using the SAW and love it alot. When I have a squad come and and the SAW gunner is jacked up or thei idiots fail to use him properly I kill him and its Dual SAWs (aka Tony Montonya Time!) LOTS of fun!

[VikingPower]

Bean Burrito MRE? Jambalaya? What in the blue ****?

When I enlisted we still had the Omlette with Ham and Chicken ala King. Both were mysteriously tinted green if I remember correctly.

I'm not sure when they phased em out, I know we got a batch of the older ones during SOI and I got fucked with the omelette. Nastiest **** ever.

[jnp]

Bean Burrito MRE? Jambalaya? What in the blue ****?

When I enlisted we still had the Omlette with Ham and Chicken ala King. Both were mysteriously tinted green if I remember correctly.

I have never heard of those either, but I got out in '95.

Back then, when we were out in the field, guys used to fight (literally) over the chicken a la king. I also remember that the dehydrated pork pattie MRE was to be avoided at all costs. I hope they shitcanned those evil fuckers.

Does anybody still refer to MREs as meals refusing to exit? Or are they better now?

[BSDaemon]

Zenkutsu Dachi FTW

[CannibalCrowley]

Does anybody still refer to MREs as meals refusing to exit? Or are they better now?

People still like to badmouth them; but they really aren't all that bad. The cold weather rations are actually really good.

[Gezere]

I had Chiken Fajita and Cajun Rice w/Sasuage today MREs. Not bad at all.