OK. Now you've gone and done it. At my first duty assignment after AIT I was a Redeye Gunner assigned to HHB of an artillery battalion. Individual weapon for Redeye Gunners was M1911. Years later, as an artillery oficer, my individual weapon was often a M1911 or M9.The Annoyed Man wrote:What happened to the mortar?G26ster wrote:Then times have changed in the military Charles. In my infantry days, as mechanized infantry mortar squad leader my only issued weapon, and the only one I had if attacked, was a 1911.Charles L. Cotton wrote: Handguns for the military are backup weapons, but us they are not only primary weapons, but likely the only weapons we will have if attacked.
Chas.
Sorry.........I couldn't help myself.
In all cases, however, I considered by primary weapon to the the M109A5 self-propelled 155mm howitzer.
