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never had a hangfire with a military weapon, but I did witness a squib once. I was supervising ammo detail and the other instructors were range safetioes on a SAW range. They were trying to finish up quickly before we had to shut down the range due to a small fire downrange that had been started by tracers. They weren't changing barrels because the spare barrels had to be left behind due to not having good certs.
One of the guns had a malfunction and instead of waiting to clear it SOP says wait 15 minutes in a training environment), they opened the feed tray cover after only about 15 seconds. The round in the chamber cooked off while the bolt was to the rear and the bullet didn't have enough backpressure to push it out the barrel.
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