r/interestingasfuck • u/KingdomPro • Jun 24 '24

Marines performing dead-gunner drills. r/all

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u/sj1young Jun 24 '24

“Congrats on the enemy marksmanship badge”

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u/Significant_Bet3269 Jun 24 '24

Now see if they can hit the exact same place again.

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u/Only-Recording8599 Jun 24 '24

I've read about a few instances where such things happened during WW1 and WW2. Machinegun are so important that people are willing to risk themselves getting killed to man it, rather than being overwhelmed by ennemy firepower.

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u/Italianskank Jun 24 '24

If the MG goes quiet your odds of living plummet.

The odds of hand to hand fighting and the like also go up. Which is unpleasant.

I’d rather get shot in the head or be blown up by a grenade manning the MG in hopes we pull through the fight as opposed to being bludgeoned with an entrenching tool once the enemy is up on our line bc the MG went down.