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The first 308 I ever shot was an M60 machine gun with every 5 th round on the belt was a tracer.
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Me too. It was the summer of '72 I was 17 years old going through Basic at Fort Dix, N.J.
It was a given that we were headed to Vietnam, so we were learning to lay down a blanket of lead out to a about a 1,000 yard. When the first barrel started glowing we'd flip the levers put on another barrel and we'd be rocking again. Each one of us was allotted five ammo cans and we all used them up. It was great fun.
Now at 58 when I send in my quarterly payment to the US Treasury, I know where some of it is going.