How Do Marines Choose Weapons?

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Most of the custom looking M-16's you see are held by the Army. They get special sights and front pistol grips and even special slings. They get special goggles and special helmet chinstraps. They get night vision holders that attach to their helmets.
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You're a little behind. Now those things are everywhere - including in the Corps.

USMC: U Suffer, Motrin Cures.
 
marines suck major ass. The SAS are the best. that is a well known fact
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nadeem, go find a Royal Marine and tell him that. You'll sound real tough pronouncing SAS with a whistle through a maw missing a few front teeth.
 
I was Army, not the Marines. But being a grunt, I like my weapons. So when I chatted with the Marines, naturally the subject of weapons came up. The basic gist was you have a wide choice. M16 or M16. A couple M203's and a few M240's and SAW's. Unless you have a shiney collar, then it's an M9, a coffee mug and a cell phone.

Naturally, they asked what I had been issued in the past. Not much, of course. Just a plain M16, M240, M249, M249 Para, M2, M82A1, G36, SC-70/90, Bofors AK5, Rk.95 , some handbuilt Sako sniper rifle (maybe some kinda of whacked out Mosin?), Steyr AUG, MG3 and this piece of junk called the L85. I'm probably forgetting a dozen, but that was a couple of the pieces I was handed at one point or another.

(I got a suggestion for replacing that 'Army of One' logo. How about 'The Army has nifty toys' ? )

Edit : I have actually seen some M14's being used as 'designated marksmen rifles'. Not many, but they're out there. Usually an M14 with some optics and a bipod.
 
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In your picture with the bolt action rifle, THE MUZZLE OF YOUR M16 WAS TOUCHING THE GROUND. :what: :eek: :what: :eek:

You will now push ALL of the pine trees off of Fort Lewis, WA. Push until I get tired!

It's a question of mind over matter. I don't mind, and you don't matter.

(Brings back some flashbacks, now, doesn't it?:neener: :D )
 
In your picture with the bolt action rifle, THE MUZZLE OF YOUR M16 WAS TOUCHING THE GROUND.
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Tsk, tsk. It was not touching the ground, it was touching the shooting mat.


For lack of situational awareness, drop. Push until *I* get tired. Up, down, up, half way down. Circles to the left. Circles to the right. Now let that marinate for a while! Gods, that was the most horrible phrase I ever heard. By the end of Basic, I was never dropped by the drills. I'd realize I messed up, and just drop myself. We were so brainwashed, if we saw someone ELSE screw up, we'd drop too. If a drill from another company threatened to drop us, we'd drop always.
 
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!

— Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, 1945
 
I was issued a nice pretty M1 in boot camp. They told me it was mine and I could clean it all I wanted to. God help if the DI thought it was dirty. Later on in the 3rd Mar Div. they gave me a custom BAR. It had nice accesories, bipod,
mag loader, sling, flash suppresor. K-bar, extra mags and a ammo humper.
That baby was fun to shoot. Then at MCRD San Diego, they gave me this nice M14. I had a choice of a plastic stock or wood stock depending on what the sargent handed me. Made me qualify and made me a range instructer.

Taught all you guy's to shoot M14's then they gave you M16's in Nam.
I hope I taught you well and you did a lot of killing.

phonesysphonesys

PS: You use what you are giving

Semper Fi
 
Bootcamp: M16A2 #6583902
Fleet:
-M16A2 and a tripod
-Then a 240G and M9.
-Then a different M16A2 (the silver rifle) and a base plate :(
-Then knee surgery and dropped the basplate.
-Then a M16A4 with an ACOG.
-Became the CO's driver and picked up an M9.
-Then back to the M16A2

Never had any choices, got whatever I was given.
 
Gee, my Arms Room was like the one in The Matrix :neener: That's just for all the 'deagle' totin' CounterStike types.

You use what you are issued, unless you know your way around the supply system well enough to get want you want without getting caught. ;)

I know of Armorers who 'embellished' M16's for certain units and certain missions with commercially bought components, and more than one SAW gunner who bought the 90 round drum as a backup to the three issued 200 round boxes.(this was before BETA-C's exsisted) Usually as long as the embellishment was to expidite the mission, CO's would turn a blind eye.

I had an M60 'on reserve' in one Arms Room, and an M249 'on reserve' in another, in case my Sgt., who was "co-issued" my rife, decided she really wanted it in a combat zone. (Thank God I never went to war with the 56th Med. - I would have 'defected' to an infantry unit...:p

nadeem, lemme guess, 125th SAS Regiment, right?


I had a very fun afternoon with some Marines from the Force Recon element at Twentynine Palms when they came up to our MOUT to 'play'....practicing building clearing with MP5SD's, and these, nor any other Marines I've met- did NOT suck [expletive deleted], they kicked it!
 
There is a manufacturer of AR-type weapons not far from here. Two Marines have had weapons made that they will take with them to Iraq. The rifles are semi-auto here because the manufacturer is not a Class III operation; the rifles will have the full-auto machining done there and the owners will take them into the field. I recall at least one being equipped with a holographic sight. Not issue, by any measure. I hope them boys git them a good bunch of dead terrs to their credit.
 
I just searched nadeem's posts. He is a 15 year old English cadet.

Please, Devil Dogs, let the education begin. :p
 
What are you talking about Nadeem??????

Im a navy man myself and Iv'e met a few British,Dutch and US Marines, during my service career so far-so don't assume that we navy or marine boys are all SILLY SISSY SAILORS, because we are trained to be one of the toughest breeds of fighting-machines on THIS PLANET.

Make that comment to a US Marine or a Royal Marine and you will be in hospital for a good few weeks-AT LEAST.:) :) :)

Marines are part of the Navy as are Navy-Seals and their British equiverlents-The SBS-, so don't diss us PLEASE. I might consider joining the SBS selection soon, if I really work at it and it is part of the Royal-Marine Commandos.Us sailors are entitled to be commandos too.
 
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Nadeem, Playstation does not constitute experience. You shouldn't make statements like that about U.S. Marines. They may be the ones saving your butt one day...
 
Last I heard, the USMC is part of the Department of the Navy.
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Which is NOT the same as being part of the Navy. The Commandant of the Marine Corps sits as one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, along with the chiefs of staff of the other services. In fact, the current Chairman of the JCS is a Marine.

The Marine Corps hasn't been part of the Navy since 1947.
 
Splitting semantic hairs.
Went to read the enabling legislation; talk about dank, dusty, and utterly boring.

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY

SEC. 206. (a) [50 U.S.C. 409(b)] The term "Department of the Navy" as used in this Act shall be construed to mean the Department of the Navy at the seat of government; the headquarters, United States Marine Corps; the entire operating forces of the United States Navy, including naval aviation, and of the United States Marine Corps, including the reserve components of such forces all field activities, headquarters, forces, bases, installations, activities and functions under the control or supervision of the Department of the Navy; and the United States Coast Guard when operating as a part of the Navy pursuant to law.

[Subsections (b) and (c) were repealed by the law enacting titles 10 and 32, United States Code (Act of August 10, 1956, 70A Stat. 676)].

TITLE 10 > Subtitle C > PART I
PART I—ORGANIZATION
 
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