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By The Armorer on March 28, 2010 | | Comments (28)
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Yer doin' it wrong.  H/t, Chuck Z for the pic.

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By Neffi on March 28, 2010 9:03 AM
How'd he get that cover closed, with a mallet?!
 
By Fishmugger on March 28, 2010 9:32 AM
And these people want a vote at the UN.
 
By AW1 Tim on March 28, 2010 9:55 AM

  Apparentley they have Top Men running their training department.

  Top. Men.

  And they wonder why we laugh.... then weep.....
 
By John (Not The Armorer) on March 28, 2010 10:03 AM
ACORN 2.0 getting ready for the 2010 and 2012 elections?
 
By BillT on March 28, 2010 10:09 AM
The MG has not yet had the urgent modification required for Third World Operations -- the abbreviation "PEGIF" etched in 38-point Bodoni on the feed tray.

On a positive note, his trigger finger is properly extended.
 
By John of Argghhh! on March 28, 2010 11:23 AM
For the acronym-challenged, "PEGIF" stands for "Pointy End Goes In Front" or "Pointy End Goes In First," depending on which version of the Joint Pub you are using.
 
By Grimmy on March 28, 2010 11:49 AM
You can tell that they're not only idiots, they're noobs too.

No one who's ever humped an GPMG more than once wears the bullet belts with the bullet ends toward their necks. Those pointies rub raw spots with a quickness. Hump the gun more than twice and you don't wear bullet belts around your neck at all.
 
By BillT on March 28, 2010 12:38 PM
...and you *don't* load one end of a hundred-round belt and leave the other wrapped around your neck.

Just a hunch, but I don't believe they're clients of ours.
 
By Argent on March 28, 2010 1:50 PM
I think, assuming Darwin or their opponents don't put them to sleep, they will look back at this image and be very glad they aren't recognisable.
 
By NevadaDailySteve on March 28, 2010 2:12 PM
I think it's a good thing these folk seem unable to grasp the operating principles of automatic weapons. Everyone, let's keep quiet, we wouldn't want them to wise up, would we? Last year the Dissident Frogman made a hilarious video after some Iraqi claimed bullets from some American unit hit her house and the picture showed her holding up a couple of cartridges of different calibers. You can see the video at his site: http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/link/like-a-suppository-only-stronger/ He seems to have stopped blogging for a time, which I for one, think is a shame.
 
By Heartless Libertarian on March 28, 2010 2:16 PM
Actually, just a guess, but I don't think he actually has the belt threaded through the feed tray.

Can anyone ID the MG on the left?  It's not an M60, MAG-58/M240, or MG-3...looks like it might be a right hand feed, maybe a PKM?  If it's a PKM, he's got the wrong kind of ammo.
 
By Grumpy on March 28, 2010 2:31 PM
With due respect to all those listed above, I do believe there are times to be silent. This is especially true if these are pictures of your adversary. It is times like this, you learn an important lesson. Experience can be the most 'unforgiving old beech for a teacher'. 
 
By Brad on March 28, 2010 4:09 PM
UK-59?
 
By Heartless Libertarian on March 28, 2010 4:17 PM
I believe you're right...in which case, home cheese still has the wrong ammo.
 
By Old Fat Sailor on March 28, 2010 4:55 PM
One on the left LL an RPD,  BillT, how come Charlie was never this incompetent? 30 years of natural selection?
 
By Grumpy on March 28, 2010 5:31 PM
@NevadaDailySteve, Details, details, details. Yes, dammit, they really do matter, I wish they would get it right for once. Good clip and comment.

@OldFatSailor, Maybe the reason is this, you were *not just* fighting Charlie.
 
By Saker on March 28, 2010 5:50 PM
It's lack of NCO's that's the problem here. They never had a drill sgt yelling "BRASS TO THE GRASS, RETARD!!!"  :D
 
By BillT on March 29, 2010 12:19 AM
how come Charlie was never this incompetent?

Some of them were. I was sitting in an LZ at flat pitch one morning, watching rounds cutting the weeds about 15 feet in front of me. The idiot was applying a half-lenght lead, just as he'd been taught..

They never had a drill sgt yelling "BRASS TO THE GRASS, RETARD!!!"

Awwww, Saker's first TINS! That's soooooo *cuuuuuuute*!
 
By Justthisguy on March 29, 2010 3:17 AM
Damn,Chief, yet again! The waiter (former Army Aviator) with whom I cow-orked for  a while  back  in  the late  70s  told  almost  exactly  the  same  story  about  their  pulling lead  on  a  stationary  helicopter.   The  restaurant was owned and run by gay folks. They prided themselves on their open-mindedness by letting some straight (or inexplicably weird like me) guys work in the kitchen.  I recall asking him what the prospects were for boy-to-boy action when he was in Vietnam. He answered in one word: "excellent."  Of course one had to be discreet back then. Still a good idea, I think.
 
By Boquisucio on March 29, 2010 7:39 AM
Use The Force, Luke.
 
By Saker on March 29, 2010 7:49 AM
Hah! Very funny, Bill. I may not be all that smart, but I know the pointy end goes in first.
 
By Saker on March 29, 2010 7:52 AM
Wait.... am I going to regret saying that?
 
By John of Argghhh! on March 29, 2010 8:03 AM
And... JTG drags us off into DADT territory. 

The thread hijack is complete...
 
By John of Argghhh! on March 29, 2010 8:07 AM
Wait.... am I going to regret saying that?


Well, d-uh.  Why should we treat you any different?
 
By BillT on March 29, 2010 8:49 AM
Wait.... am I going to regret saying that?

Eventually -- yeah, you are.

And when you least expect it.
 
By Rich H on March 30, 2010 10:59 AM
Just came up with a working hypothesis

This picture, as well as the other absurd ones from that neck of the woods (the moron with a life jacket firing his AK held over his head with the rifle on its side, for example), might be the Somali teenage boy equivalent of a US "Glamor shot".  They're all staged.

Plausible?
 
By John of Argghhh! on March 30, 2010 11:13 AM
Oh, it's definitely stylin' for the camera, that's for sure. 
 
By Rich H on March 30, 2010 12:31 PM
The MG on the left is definitely some variant of the Czech Vz 59 - it matches the world.guns.ru picture to the letter (id notes: bolt or whatever just ahead of the stock and the elevated feed track that extends to the right side, complete with relief figure on the side.