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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 858099" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>my data is from two different papers submitted by the Pentagon, and the U.S. Army War College. Their data was as current as five years ago, but takes in all combat arenas. The same ratios have been confirmed by Russia, Germany, UK, and a few others. There's not much new on this planet when it comes to killing people when you think about it.</p><p> </p><p>By the way I've been involved in house to house stuff more than once or twice. The best thing since sliced bread was the old M79 buck shot round, but it was also it's down fall as it was a single shot weapon.. A grease gun or a Thompson submachine gun were probably just as good, but better due to their magazine content. </p><p> </p><p>I count 17 combat assaults in my book, even though a few others say it was more. A standard load out for a five or six man team was three belts of 7.62x51 on everyman, but the radio man. I carried an extra barrel, and another guy carried the other. The others carried batteries. I also had a bagged M16 with twenty one mags wrapped around it. Everybody hauled the twenty one mag load or more. I also had about ten or twelve M79 HE rounds in my lower left pants pocket. Randy carried about three dozen himself. Also carried a 1911a1 with four mags. Two quarts of water, and three meals. Two extra pairs of socks, and a towl. In my lower right hand pocket were two pairs of hemostats, morphine, a bag of bandages, and a piece of surgical tubing. I've gotten down to a belt and a half a couple times, and down to two full mags several other times. When we went in heavy, we all carried four or five belts, and pulled a drag bag off the chopper. That's enough M60 ammo to get you by a couple hours, or about three late night probs. Roughly 110lb. a man. Two out of three times I rolled out the door we were alone, as the infantry never got the word till we were there. Two or three times they dropped us off in the wrong location, and we didn't know where we were exactly. Then you gotta shoot several WP bursts to plot vectors to figure out your location. Now it's done via GPS! </p><p> </p><p>The drag bag had six meals and four quarts of water. Two cases of 5.56 loaded in M16 mags. Another two or three loose 7.62 belts. Plus hand held flares and more smoke grenades and two more batteries. If there was room we packed in several Claymores as well. The idea of the drag bag came after about the 5th trip, and was simply kicked out by the door gunner as the last guy left the left side of the chopper.</p><p> </p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 858099, member: 25383"] my data is from two different papers submitted by the Pentagon, and the U.S. Army War College. Their data was as current as five years ago, but takes in all combat arenas. The same ratios have been confirmed by Russia, Germany, UK, and a few others. There's not much new on this planet when it comes to killing people when you think about it. By the way I've been involved in house to house stuff more than once or twice. The best thing since sliced bread was the old M79 buck shot round, but it was also it's down fall as it was a single shot weapon.. A grease gun or a Thompson submachine gun were probably just as good, but better due to their magazine content. I count 17 combat assaults in my book, even though a few others say it was more. A standard load out for a five or six man team was three belts of 7.62x51 on everyman, but the radio man. I carried an extra barrel, and another guy carried the other. The others carried batteries. I also had a bagged M16 with twenty one mags wrapped around it. Everybody hauled the twenty one mag load or more. I also had about ten or twelve M79 HE rounds in my lower left pants pocket. Randy carried about three dozen himself. Also carried a 1911a1 with four mags. Two quarts of water, and three meals. Two extra pairs of socks, and a towl. In my lower right hand pocket were two pairs of hemostats, morphine, a bag of bandages, and a piece of surgical tubing. I've gotten down to a belt and a half a couple times, and down to two full mags several other times. When we went in heavy, we all carried four or five belts, and pulled a drag bag off the chopper. That's enough M60 ammo to get you by a couple hours, or about three late night probs. Roughly 110lb. a man. Two out of three times I rolled out the door we were alone, as the infantry never got the word till we were there. Two or three times they dropped us off in the wrong location, and we didn't know where we were exactly. Then you gotta shoot several WP bursts to plot vectors to figure out your location. Now it's done via GPS! The drag bag had six meals and four quarts of water. Two cases of 5.56 loaded in M16 mags. Another two or three loose 7.62 belts. Plus hand held flares and more smoke grenades and two more batteries. If there was room we packed in several Claymores as well. The idea of the drag bag came after about the 5th trip, and was simply kicked out by the door gunner as the last guy left the left side of the chopper. gary [/QUOTE]
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