Beyond Walks on MSN

22nd MEU conducts machine gun range at Camp Santiago

U.S. Marines with Headquarters and Service Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special ...
Beyond Walks on MSN

Marines train machine gun crews and medics during SK25

U.S. Marines with 1st Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company and Marine Support Battalion, I Marine Expeditionary Force ...
War on the Rocks

Outgunned in the Drone Fight: The U.S. Military Is Failing to Adopt the Next Machine Gun

The British Army began World War I with only two machine guns per infantry battalion. One gun was a spare, meaning the effective ratio was one per 1,000 soldiers. Historian John Ellis summarized, “For ...
The National Interest

Foul Play Brought the Thompson SMG to the Marine Corps

The Thompson SMG, used by gangsters, lawmen, and WWII troops, has origins tied to the Cutts Compensators and Marine Corps Colonel Victor Bleasdale. The compensator, designed by Richard Cutts Sr. and ...