.50 BMG B.S.

[diggler1833]

My Dad was a machine gunner in the S. Pacific WWII. He would never talk about it except for some funny anecdotes.(bouncing bullets off crocks with a tommy-gun or running out of the crapper to dive in a hole during incoming mortar fire) Finally, I pried a few gory details out of him. Damn…….Still he never ever talked about the folks he’d killed. Not one word.

I still can’t believe this kind, generous, strong man that I knew as my father, saw and did those things. I can’t believe he just wasn’t damaged goods after that.

He had two families, 12 kids, lived to 94, died peacefully in his bed.

I miss you every day Dad.

^ A true hero.

The story very much reminds me of my grandfather who served on a destroyer escort in the pacific (Fletcher class). Was in basically every naval battle during the entire island hopping campaign. The only time he ever opened up was when I was visiting before going to recruit training for the Marines. Told me a few stories, and I got to look through his photo album.

He always went to bed after 3-4 strong drinks on the rocks. Never did he lose his temper or show signs of aggression to his family. It was only after my career did I recognize his signs of PTSD.

Came home after the war and raised a family, while being a college professor.

He was only about 5'4", but he was a mountain of a man.

 

[232593]

.50 BMG retardation

 

[stefan73]

I mean how many chances will you ever get to shoot that kinda shit at people.

I would smoke a dude with a javelin if given the chance. Piss on the $80K, that's and experience you will have for the rest of your life. Good waste of taxpayer money IMO. HAPPY to fill that paperwork out

We had our MK19's for all of 3 weeks into the deployment. They took them away and said they were way too destructive for convoy ops. Pure retardation from leadership. No 240s so it was clapped out 50 cals and 249 pintle mounts. Neither gave me the confidence a MK19 or even a 240 with a M145 elcan would have. At least they were "newish". Rolling in around in unarmored humvees nothing but armorerd doors and front plate up top dodging IEDS and ambushes daily.

I always wanted to center punch a dude with a training TOW with a concrete warhead.

 

[DeathBeforeDismount]

I always wanted to center punch a dude with a training TOW with a concrete warhead.

Great minds think alike. I always wanted to shoot someone in the head with the orange paint 203 rounds. If it wouldn't most likely kill em it woulda happened on a a drunken AT at ft ap hill.

 

[EddieNFL]

There comes a point where you claim so much, that people will start looking into it.

I unfortunately had a Marine - a frigging counterpart E6 - who constantly yapped about killing dudes as a prior infantryman in Afghanistan as well as the Iraqi invasion (even while we were deployed together in Iraq). Eventually, he ran his suck so much that his stories crossed, and his facts started to sound fishy... like 'so stupid it can't be real' fishy. I looked into his claims on MOL as I had 1stSgt privileges (that just let me look at everyone's basic record of service - but it includes their original contract information, individual awards, and deployment history)...

...Lo and behold, the dude was never prior infantry. He did do the Iraqi invasion kind of - but his deployment only listed "Kuwait". He was never in Afghanistan. He had never been in combat. In fact, he was wearing a lot of awards that he never earned. I passed the information to the other SNCOs, and we all just F-ed with the dude mercilessly without ever letting him know we were in on his charade. It became a game to us to ask him about his Afghanistan history, and he'd just ramble on and on like this fag in the video above. The junior Marines were told to ignore him.

... Then came the day that my counterpart went to the Career Course (professional school for E-6s), and came back after graduation with an additional 5 ribbons on his chest that he never earned - including a combat action ribbon. That was where we had enough and 'ran him up the flagpole'. He visited the Bn SgtMaj and came back rather sheepish, but no charges. However, he didn't learn his lesson and did the same frigging thing with the extra ribbons and medals for the Marine Corps Ball a few months later. He got photographed and ran up the flagpole again... and somehow got orders out of our Bn within the week.

I don't think anything administrative was ever done to him, which is B.S. He ended up retiring as an E-7, and ironically friend requested a bunch of us on Facebook.

We occasionally will comment on one of his photos with his new wife with an "Have him tell you about Afghanistan".

Just volunteering and serving is duty enough to prove that you have some fortitude as a human being. You don't need to embellish your record to make friends, and frequently you are going to pass off bullshit that is going to raise eyebrows of those who know better. At that point, you get whatever comes your way.

A friend helped bust a retired E-6. He managed to pass himself off as a retired E-9. Had the decs and war stories. Full disability. His wife was a retired 0-6 on full disability…except she never served a day.

Turns out they were really good at forging documents. Both finally went to prison. Convictions included murdering her first husband. Her son provided the damning evidence.

 

[stefan73]

A friend helped bust a retired E-6. He managed to pass himself off as a retired E-9. Had the decs and war stories. Full disability. His wife was a retired 0-6 on full disability…except she never served a day.

Turns out they were really good at forging documents. Both finally went to prison. Convictions included murdering her first husband. Her son provided the damning evidence.

I hate fakers! There is no reason to be anything else than what your are!

 

[Mike Casselton]

Great times. Truly the wild wild West.

Heres a mk19, go learn it your going to be a gunner now. Mission briefing is at 0500 tommrow be ready to roll at 0430. Hey Sgt can you show me how to work this thing? Hell if I know go find someone.

Watching dude ND a mk19 into a charging/firing birm was hilarious. What wasn't was when someone ND a .50 and it sent a round across the base and hit an armored HET with 2 dudes sleeping in it. That's how you go from e4 to e2 in an afternoon.

I could write a book about the shit we saw and did. From orgy's to getting drunk on mission to guys getting popped by CID for robbing every aafes in theater. Smoking weed and getting pissed tested a week later and somehow not popping. 1st Sgt relieved for fucking an e4 ( she was smoking hot at least) to his wife selling all his shit back home and sending him via APO boxes with his clothes and shit. Guy wins silver star for giving his life to other guys getting nothing for legit acts of heroism under fire. Watching a buddy tell the xo he's going to cut his head off and fuck the hole...he gets sent home and is now run some vet org. Me and 2 e4 buddies embarrassing our CO in front of the 3 star NGB commander calling him an incompetent retard in front of him. One of the e4s was the nephew of the general so not shit they could do. Throwing gatorade bottles of piss into the open windows of Iraqis..sometimes causing horrible accidents .Our black Baltimore City hood rat e6 cook goes crazy and decides to run through the base naked at like 0700... Tries to go in chow hall and gets shit kicked out of him by MPs and sent home. The little nympho chick that was fucking so many dudes she had a full time wm battle assigned to her. Until they found out they were a team and were partners in crime. She was made a big hero back in Nebraska ...married of course hahaha. 4 guys killed due to leadership failures. Buddy taking a shit in a shitter trailer gets a phillepnio dick in his face via glory hole...holds the dude a knifepoint.. had to be dragged off. E6.and e4 both married get caught fucking in a connex named the love shack. Guys going home to fuck their battles wife on leave. Stealing trucks from the port from other units and torching em/using for gunnery practice. Whole connexes full of pyro and demo that "mostly" was accounted for. We had a hell of a new year show. LT shoots up a bus full of Iraqis towards end of tour and it flips and catches fire killing em all. No one cares. And much much more. All over the course of about 15 months. Wild wild West indeed. If we weren't so scared of getting killed every minute of the day could have really enjoyed it.

Can you imagine the shit show if service was made mandatory like some people want?

 

[buffalowinter]

Great minds think alike. I always wanted to shoot someone in the head with the orange paint 203 rounds. If it wouldn't most likely kill em it woulda happened on a a drunken AT at ft ap hill.

 

[mtrmn]

My Dad was a machine gunner in the S. Pacific WWII. He would never talk about it except for some funny anecdotes.(bouncing bullets off crocks with a tommy-gun or running out of the crapper to dive in a hole during incoming mortar fire) Finally, I pried a few gory details out of him. Damn…….Still he never ever talked about the folks he’d killed. Not one word.

I still can’t believe this kind, generous, strong man that I knew as my father, saw and did those things. I can’t believe he just wasn’t damaged goods after that.

He had two families, 12 kids, lived to 94, died peacefully in his bed.

I miss you every day Dad.

My daddy's experience was like this as well. Never talked about it until just a few years before he died. Carried the air-cooled 30 cal Browning MG with the bipod and buttstock.