A One Five Marine with his M-249 squad automatic weapon covers his platoon during a road recon patrol in Helmand Province Sept 6/2009. The M249 AKA SAW is a belt-fed light machine gun. The SAW fires the 5.56x45 mm NATO round, four ball rounds to one M856 tracer fed from M27 linked belts. Belts are held in a hard plastic or soft canvas box that you can see attached to the underside of the weapon. Something the M-60 did not have. Our gunner draped the belts around his chest. The thing was---every time he had to provide cover for his platoon---the linked belts picked up mud, crud and corruption until the doodo hit the fan and the belts were practically useless. Details. Photo SSgt. William Greeson
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Covering Fire
A One Five Marine with his M-249 squad automatic weapon covers his platoon during a road recon patrol in Helmand Province Sept 6/2009. The M249 AKA SAW is a belt-fed light machine gun. The SAW fires the 5.56x45 mm NATO round, four ball rounds to one M856 tracer fed from M27 linked belts. Belts are held in a hard plastic or soft canvas box that you can see attached to the underside of the weapon. Something the M-60 did not have. Our gunner draped the belts around his chest. The thing was---every time he had to provide cover for his platoon---the linked belts picked up mud, crud and corruption until the doodo hit the fan and the belts were practically useless. Details. Photo SSgt. William Greeson
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