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Huh. Course, that's 23 pounds unloaded. Add 200 rounds of belted 7.62, and (well, that's why we call them 'grunts').
And here they told me that we got the 'lightweight' M60E3, all 23 pounds of it. plus ammo. to hump 45 feet up a vertical ladder to sit in the bridge of a submarine.
'Momma, momma, can't you see/My recruiter lied to me?'
Shoot, L4, 1cm powerguns are like a shoulder-fired .50 rifle, condensed into a pistol. The 2cm shoulder weapons are closer to a 30mm Bushmaster chaingun, and the tribarrels are essentially a GAU-8 (the A-10's big gun). I don't think there's a gun on earth that is the equivalent of a 20cm tank gun.
Tas, that's why I wanted my Surefire instead of that monster. Size of a mini-maglite, brighter than a 6 D-cell or rechargeable Maglite. I've used mine as revenge against a Chief who brighted me during a field day (that's an all-hands cleaning evolution for the non-naval personnel out there). I was shoved so far into an outboard that all you could see was my feet, Chief walks up, taps a foot, I turn around and get a facefull of rechargeable Maglite. Much profanity ensues, and Chief gets my little surefire full in the face. I can see ok in a couple minutes, he's still seeing spots an hour later (and cussign about it). I never got brighted again, but did have to show off the Surefire a lot.
Yeah, ROEs are a [expletive deleted]. Not allowed to shoot until after you've come under fire, or someone's so close that you'll still take damage if they've got a big bomb is ... aggravating.
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Powerguns (!) vs. lasers and phasers are like an assault rifle vs. a bolt action rifle ... IMO ... but I've never used a Powergun, Laser or Phaser ! 
