Machine Guns and Machine Gun Gunnery, Plus 500 free US military manuals and US Army field manuals when you sample this book

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PURPOSE
This Publication Machine Guns and Machine Gun Gunnery, describes how various machine guns are maintained and employed by the U.S. Marine Corps' machine gun crews. It also provides the principles and techniques for their use in engaging and destroying enemy targets.

2. SCOPE
This reference publication is designed for machine gunners, platoon commanders, platoon sergeants, S-3 officers and chiefs, armorers, and ammunition technicians. It outlines a standardized way to train Marine machine gunners through the use of gunnery tables.


Table of Contents
Page
Chapter 1. Introduction to Machine Guns
Chapter 2. Machine Gun, Light, Squad Automatic Weapon, M249
Section 1. Introduction 2-5
Section 2. Disassembly and Assembly 2-8
Section 3. Functioning 2-20
Section 4. Malfunctions and Stoppages 2-24
Section 5. Mounts and Accessories 2-27
Section 6. Maintenance 2-29
Section 7. Ammunition 2-37
Section 8. Operation and Firing 2-40
Section 9. Qualification Firing 2-45
Chapter 3. Machine Gun, 7.62mm, M240G
Section 1. Introduction 3-5
Section 2. Disassembly, Assembly, and Nomenclature 3-7
Section 3. Functioning 3-19
Section 4. Malfunctions and Stoppages 3-23
Section 5. Mounts and Accessories 3-27
Section 6. Maintenance 3-38
Section 7. Ammunition 3-41
Section 8. Operation and Firing 3-45
Section 9. Gun Drill 3-50
Section 10. Qualification Firing 3-56
Section 11. Firing with Blank Ammunition 3-62
Chapter 4. Machine Gun, Caliber .50, Browning, M2HB
Section 1. Introduction 4-5
Section 2. Disassembly, Assembly, and Nomenclature 4-7
Section 3. Headspace and Timing 4-26
Section 4. Functioning 4-29
Section 5. Malfunctions and Stoppages 4-35
Section 6. Mounts and Accessories 4-39
Section 7. Maintenance 4-43
Section 8. Ammunition 4-47
Section 9. Operation and Firing 4-53
Section 10. Gun Drill 4-56
Section 11. Qualification Firing 4-64
Chapter 5. Machine Gun, 40mm, MK-19 MOD 3
Section 1. Introduction 5-5
Section 2. Disassembly, Assembly, and Nomenclature 5-7
Section 3. Functioning 5-15
Section 4. Malfunctions and Stoppages 5-20
Section 5. Mounts and Accessories 5-22
Section 6. Maintenance 5-30
Section 7. Ammunition 5-32
Section 8. Operation and Firing 5-36
Section 9. Gun Drill 5-40
Chapter 6. Employment and Gunnery
Section 1. Introduction 6-5
Section 2. Characteristics of Fire 6-9
Section 3. Classes of Fire 6-12
Section 4. Range Determination 6-16
Section 5. Traversing and Elevating Mechanism 6-18
Section 6. Fire Control 6-21
Section 7. Methods of Target Engagement 6-25
Section 8. Overhead Fires 6-36
Section 9 Techniques of Predetermined Fire 6-42
Section 10. Final Protective Lines 6-46
Section 11. Range Cards 6-49
Section 12. Firing From Defilade Position 6-53
Section 13. Machine Gunner's Mathematics 6-60
Section 14. Antiaircraft Gunnery 6-64
Section 15. Firing Positions 6-72
Section 16. Wire Communications 6-75