Comments for Navy Gun Pr0n.

Navy Gun Pr0n.

2006-03-10T14:23:38Z

Another one here, and another one here.

Those are M-14's, the Armorer's favorite US battle rifle. H/t, Tammy B.

Comment from J.M. Heinrichs on 2006-03-11

2006-03-11T22:24:38Z

One of the best Arty training films around! Cheers JMH

Comment from Blake Kirk on 2006-03-11

2006-03-11T21:34:21Z

The 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Abn drew a couple hundred M-14's from depot stocks as interim weapons for soldiers in Designated Marksman positions prior to deploying to Iraq last year. When we got to the staging base in Kuwait, it turned out that I (that old retired dude,) was the only person in the Brigade headquarters company who knew how to field strip one. It turned into a train-the-trainer class real quick.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2006-03-11

2006-03-11T17:55:55Z

'Phibian - no, no. I forwarded you that from CAPT H!

Comment from CDR Salamander on 2006-03-11

2006-03-11T16:26:47Z

John, I'm just glad we got away from the "bags of seamen" comment from the Kitten. As for the Army.....I always think of the stuff you sent me of your exchange tour. Isn't that you front right?

Comment from lex on 2006-03-11

2006-03-11T16:26:04Z

Clearly got here far too late to contribute meaningfully to this discussion... Will point out that I love the M-14 too. Just sumpin about a rifle that's got heft, both coming and going. And you leave that last bit be, Were-Kitten ;-)

Comment from J.M. Heinrichs on 2006-03-10

2006-03-11T03:19:07Z

Rather than a "mount" perhaps a "mounting"? Cheers JMH

Comment from Neffi on 2006-03-10

2006-03-11T01:55:57Z

Well, HL- female sailors *demand* a different mount (or so I've heard). Something to do with solid rails over the ports, or some such thing...

Comment from Heartless Libertarian on 2006-03-10

2006-03-11T00:31:08Z

Am I the only one who noticed the Picatinny rail looking thingys on the female sailors rifle? First mount I've seen that didn't have a solid rail all the way over the ejection port. Can anyone elighten me as to the advantage of doing it this way?

Comment from PigBoatSailor on 2006-03-10

2006-03-11T00:12:21Z

Geez chief, just because they say 120 men get underway on a sub and 2 prizefighters and 59 couples come back...?

Comment from cw4(ret)billt on 2006-03-10

2006-03-10T21:29:26Z

Huh? Using "sailor" and "straight" in the same sentence? What's up--you turning into Lex of Argghhh?

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2006-03-10

2006-03-10T21:24:46Z

I tole ya a wandering sailor would give us the straight skinny!~

Comment from PigBoatSailor on 2006-03-10

2006-03-10T21:20:43Z

We interrupt your regularly scheduled threadjacking with this important Naval Bulletin: Our benevolent host is mostly correct on the airman confusion. There are 3 'flavors' of ratings in the Navy: Seamen (most rates), Airmen (aviation related rates), Firemen (Damage Control types, Hull Techs, Machinists, other seemingly random rates). However, once they reach E4, they are all just referred to as Petty Officers, or their specific rate. We now return you to your threadjacking already in progress

Comment from Were-Kitten on 2006-03-10

2006-03-10T19:38:11Z

Thread-jacking? Moi? never..... I was just looking out for the safety of our men at sea. honest. *crosses fingers behind back*

Comment from jim b on 2006-03-10

2006-03-10T19:06:30Z

no one play with the term threadjacking okay ... it's Friday after all.

Comment from FbL on 2006-03-10

2006-03-10T19:00:34Z

Owe-kayyy, I sense a thread-hijacking attempt in progress... Perceptive, ain't he? ;)

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2006-03-10

2006-03-10T18:06:42Z

Heh. Just, heh.

Comment from cw4(ret)billt on 2006-03-10

2006-03-10T18:04:16Z

Owe-kayyy, I sense a thread-hijacking attempt in progress...

Comment from Were-Kitten on 2006-03-10

2006-03-10T17:44:00Z

I just hope those bags are full of sand, and not seamen. ;-)

Comment from jim b on 2006-03-10

2006-03-10T17:25:37Z

Bruce let me try to explain. The range is a flight deck of a carrier.... that IS her LBE. A helmet would mess up her hair, she is wearing her 5th ammendment glasses, and keeping a tight group somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific or wherever she is tournig at present. That 'gun' thing is just a way of passing some time, they were playin with remote control air planes till they crashed them all. What you can't hear is the music playin while they shoot, and the gunner's mate gryping about having to clean the rifles after they are done. I hope she doesn't break a nail. You know how crabby she gets.

Comment from Bruce on 2006-03-10

2006-03-10T16:52:11Z

Wait a minute! No helmets or LBE? What kind of rifle range is that? And... So that's where all the M-14s are hiding out..

Comment from Roy Patterson on 2006-03-10

2006-03-10T16:49:48Z

hi! I am a real fan of your website! I am from the "M-14" army! enjoyed this article on that fine weapon! Roy Patterson veteran B Troop 1st Squadron 14th Armored Cav 1966-1969 Fulda Gap

Comment from jim b on 2006-03-10

2006-03-10T16:26:56Z

Carriers = Naval Aspirators. They are engaged in a FAM fire. Sandbags are to protect the stuff around the catwalks ... have you ever seen squids shoot? Sailors designated as Ship's Landing Party FAM fire weapons now and then. A lot of them are armed with the M-14, which replaced the M-1. BAR, Thompson's some time back. To Marines they look more like the Ding Ding Brothers Barnfarb and Bailout circus. They even go ashore now and then for familiarization. Or sometimes in areas where there is no USO to provide comic relief to any Marines who may be about. Grey helmits dungarees, and their trousers tucked into their socks. Usually the 'CCO' of a gator ship, or the Marine Detatchment of a capitol ship is tasked to try to teach them something. Back in the 'day' they operated like the the anchor klankers in Sand Pebbles.

Comment from cw4(ret)billt on 2006-03-10

2006-03-10T16:04:18Z

Beat me to the FOD walkdown. Heh. The sandbags are probably full of laundry...

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2006-03-10

2006-03-10T15:56:45Z

Good catch, Bill. I've only shot the M1 and M14 out to 800 meters on the National Match ranges at Fort Riley and Fort Sill. But I suspect my eyesight no longer supports that kind of shooting over iron sights. There's a little FOD detail to follow, since they seem to be shooting across the flight deck... and I wonder what those sandbags are full of...

Comment from cw4(ret)billt on 2006-03-10

2006-03-10T15:40:21Z

Miss Melissa has picked up a very bad habit, somewhere along the line. First time she tries to hit a target greater than 15 meters away with *that* support-arm position, she's gonna be SOL. Even the VC knew better than to use the mag as a front handgrip. And I like the M-14 a lot, too. But for anything over a thousand meters, I'll take an M-1, and, yes, I *can* hit things that far out with it. With iron sights. The only advantage I can see to using a scope is to see "the look" on his face...

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2006-03-10

2006-03-10T15:19:41Z

Look at how they captioned the photographer, too. Airman may be Naval shorthand for the Aviation ratings in the Navy. I dunno. Mebbe a visiting sailor with enlighten us. That said, if the people doing captions for the Navy have the same depth of knowledge as the people captioning Army pics, it could just be a screw-up, too. But those are Navy ratings doing the shooting.

Comment from Were-Kitten on 2006-03-10

2006-03-10T15:06:37Z

Question. The caption says it's an Airman pictured, on board a carrier. Do we have Air Force personnel assigned to carriers now??