Ft Jackson Day 8

Today started very early in the morning as we headed to another range to shoot a number of heavy weapons including, 50 Cal Machine Gun, M19 Grenade Launcher, and the "SAW", high speed machine gun. Much fun!!!! We had a class on how to use our Gas Masks. We were done by noon. The rest of the day we attended several briefings, and then a 2 1/2 mile march, at a fast pace, very hot!! But we did get off around5:30 PM which is earlier than we did last week.

Getting ready to leave at "Oh Dark Thirty" in the morning.

At the Heavy Weapon Gun Range, in my "Battle Rattle".

The "SAW" high speed machine guns.

More SAW machine guns.

The M19 Grenade Launchers. You can see the armored vehicles that we were shooting at in the distance. You would shoot 4-5 round burst at them, and the grenades would explode around them.

50 Cal machine guns. Those are armored personell carriers downrange that we were shooting at. We were easily hitting them, and the rounds were going through them. Very Cool!!