Re: BAR

From: Ed (mojoedd@bellsouth.net)
Date: Sun Jan 29 2006 - 21:10:49 PST


There ya go Lance! Good telling of a good story and another reason that the
Matty Mattel rifle was and mostly still is junk! Glad that you made it
home!

Best Regards,

Ed

"Sirs, you have no reason to be ashamed of your Confederate dead; see
to it they have no reason to be ashamed of you"

----- Original Message -----
From: <bolton8@juno.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 22:39
Subject: Re: [MV] BAR

> RANDY asked:
> > And does anybody know of them in Vietnam,
>
> February 1968, Tet Offensive, "The Hill" (foothills of the Plateaux
> Montagnards)
>
> Hour or two after sunset a patrol of Montagnard Irregulars seemed to
> materialize just outside our defensive perimeter. They were looking for
> a place to chow down and spend the night. One of them was carrying a
> BAR almost as big as himself.
> Rest had an assortment of M1 Carbines and M1 Garands.
>
> I made a beeline for him and that Big Ass Rifle (BAR), inviting them
> both into my sandbagged hole. I had an M14 and an M79 there, but one of
> John Browning's finest was a welcome addition. Set the BAR up with the
> bipod resting on the sandbags, and muzzle pointed towards "that shadowy
> area" where the moonlight doesn't reach.
> Before sunup the Montagnards had melted away as silently as they arrived.
>
> Friend of mine was an M113 driver with the 9th Infantry Division during
> the Cambodian Incursion. He told me of two BAR's that were in the unit.
> Although not authorized by the division, the weapons were reliable and
> well respected. But .30/06 ammo was sometimes hard to come by.
>
> After the third time his M16 jammed he refused to carry it and was
> issued an M3 Grease Gun. I carried an M14 because I did not trust that
> jam-a-matic.
>
> LANCE



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