In Iraq I carried 13 30rnd mags on my body and 8 in my day bag. And in a duffle bag in back of hummvee we had 25 full mags. When I carried the m203 with my m4 I carried 7 40mm grenades for it

​@@SGTMillerm if liberals wanna know why you carry that much ammo i gotchu. Because America mother fucker thats why 😂 thank you for your service ✊🇺🇲

​@SGTMillerm, thank you for your service.

​@@SGTMillermthanks for your service! How many did you empty

@@T1A4437 every day on average. More than half of my mags. Sometimes less. Sometimes way more. Some days none. Depends on the day

Wait until you get to a machine gun team and you're humping 1000 7.62 😂

True story. It always seems like ya can’t carry enough of It. Atleast that how I felt hump a SAW around lol

Idk man bullets get pretty heavy on long movements 😂

That is true as a ex navy sailor ….. the only time they would not take any is if it’s slowing them down ……… and or they ran out of places to put them

​@@larserik8899 When I was a machine gunner my company decided to use the new GPMG like a light machine gun, meaning the machine gunner had to carry everything by himself, including 1000 rounds of 7.62×51. Never weighed that shit, but I estimate the ammo alone to be 25-30kg (55-66 lbs). Definitly made me question my life choices when being on a week long live fire exercise.

God bless that man. My grandfathers, both WW2 vets, would have turned 100 in the year 2025.

Respect for your dad, and a happy 100th! My dad and every uncle were WWII veterans. Three in Korea, one Airborne , two in the Navy on aircraft carriers. One uncle in the Marines was killed in the Pacific Theater, my dad’s older brother survived Guadalcanal and other islands. One uncle was a ball turret gunner (50 missions). All deceased now, miss them all.

Americans and your fetish of praising the army... Can you even imagine not going to war/ starting one every 5 mins ?

What a blessing. My father was a WW2 Vet. If he was still around, I would spend all my waking hours at his feet as I plied him with questions about his experience in WW2.

Tell your Grandpa, "Much respect" from me please. My Grandpa was a WW2 vet as well.

👍

Thank you my guy for your defense of my freedom and putting your life on the line! Rest in peace to those who did not make it home!

Did you only load 19? Rock and roll

@@cosmo5102Yeah that’s totally what the US was doing in Vietnam, protecting your “freedom”.

​@@carlito___fml2652Yeah... what a delusional comment.

I do wish the Military would go back to the tried and true wood and metal entrenching tools as those were designed with hand to hand fighting in mind.

Agreed and I think honestly it's anyone nightmare! Just thinking home invasion or a cop facing someone trying to kill them. It's nightmare fuel!

Fact🇺🇲👍✝️

It ain't just soldiers. If you carry a gun professionally, you've had a nightmare or 50 of being in the shit and either running out of ammo or having it malfunction.

That's called pick a gun off the ground.

*They carried as much as they could get for to stay alive! FTFY, at least in regards to the guys doing shit like clipping them to their bandoliers, belts and shoving clips in there pockets

? Worded strangely but understood

So he was what? 18? And went to go didn't the deadliest war in history? Good man.... good man.

It enough.

the comfortable amount is the most amount.

South America ?

Yes We, never the full division at one time deployed several time to South, Central America 61-63

You were issued an M1 in 1962 at the 82nd? Were you supply or admin?

When the Army converted to the M 14 the 82nd kept our M1 garands, carbines, BAR Etc. I held several MOS And spent a lot of my 6 years AD on various Marksmanship units. The word was our CG Said our gear is battle tested.. Since we often deployed to ?? He would not change. We also still had our Horseshoe packs When I arrived on Okinawa in 63 the 173rd had the M 14 and ALICE Pack web gear

​@@mikemarthaller8789 Awesome sir 🤟💙

True answer

After the self encased cartridge, definitely. For *some reason* soldiers in the loose powder & ball era only seemed to want to carry as much as they absolutely needed. A stray spark or even too much atmospheric static before a storm could *really* mess up your day.

You mean what you can carry? You have to be able to carry that weight everywhere.

@@nicholashodges201 that’s why I said “the past hundred years or so”.

@@ethanweeter2732 Oftentimes what you could get your hands on was less than what you could carry. It is possible to carry *a lot* of ammunition, and ammo allotments rarely reach that maximum.

Muffled by ammo

@@thesysop4998Muffled by deez nuts

Yes, because he's carrying it in a M1919 belt. For the dude who carries the M1919.

Bandoliers in a cross, bandoliers around the thigh, bandoliers...

Ain't no fun if the homies can't have none.

Great cure for p dough files.

@@scottmccloud9029fr

​@@scottmccloud9029 eh don't waste such good ammo on that, just dump a few .38 or .22 with utmost disrespect

It is a great round. But it’s overkill for human targets and they’re huge and heavy. As he said, a bandolier only carried 80 rounds. Today a bandolier carries 210 of 5.56, which is more than adequate for human targets. I know I’d rather have 210 than 80.

​@@srcastic8764 .338 Norma that US tries to adopt to ruin NATO standardisation says hello

Absolutely, i say that alot.

That's what I think on weekly trip to Gun Runners

Something my father always said when he was in Nam on long marches. “I rather be sweating from carrying excess ammo, than be bleeding with an empty rifle.”

Just like a condom or a seatbelt 🤝

​@@AkaChales2012 Yeah, that was my thought exactly. Well, I hadn't thought about the seat belt. That's been automatic for me for decades, especially if I'm driving. Back in the late '80's I was driving a company truck & swerved to keep from hitting a deer. I wasn't wearing my belt & it was raining & I'm just starting into an S shaped curve at about 65mph with traffic coming from the other way, & I'm counter steering & counter steering all over the road trying to dodge cars & not run off the road cuz major drops on both sides. By the time I got stopped I was almost on the passenger side of the truck. My saving grace was that there was no one behind me. I've ALWAYS put my belt on ever since. That one convinced me.

BoB !!!

yes "Rifleman" is the USMC term -- "Infantryman" for the Army

@@markrossow6303 And don't forget, no matter what his MOS, "Military Occupational Specialty" might be every Marine from the Commandant on down carries the additional MOS of "rifleman." And all are required to qualify with the rifle once a year.

200 rounds for M1 Garand is like 50 cycles of reload 🤔

@@someoneelsethatisirrelevan1769 No, half that, or 25. 200 divided by 8 is 25, not 50. Apparently, in addition to irrelevant, you're also innumerate...

@@AndrewAMartin oh, right.... I was thinking about 4 but it's actually 8. Yeah, thanks for correcting me

That was without the bandoliers you almost never see us troops in combat without 1-4 bandoliers

96 rounds was two bandoleers, and seems to be the standard amount of ammo issued. 30-06 is heavy. A rifleman didn't go around with a full cartridge belt & 4 bandoleers. If I remember correctly, the average soldier fired less than 48 rounds in combat during their entire time in the war.

Yeah that statement was for tax purposes 😂

@@donwyoming1936 My grandfather went through more than that during the Battle of the Bulge. And he was a BAR gunner.

@@donwyoming1936That’s the thing about averages. A lot of guys never fired a round, while some guys fired hundreds. It all has to do with where and when they were assigned to be and what role they played.

Lot of weight to carry lol

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There's a reason infantrymen have fucked up knees

A friend of mine was Army in Vietnam. He said he carried 250 rounds for his M14, in addition to his M79 and its own ammo.

@@drsteelhead7278 there is lots to carry. Laws rockets, grenades, claymore mines, if your s grenadier Vietnam the m-79 and modern day The m203 which both fired 40 mm grenades. The stove pipe 90mm recoilless rifle Vietnam era late 70's hand grenades, flares. Weapon issued ammo. Took as much as you could get. 50 caliber rifles were assigned to csc. Back when I was in they had 2 lb sticks of c-4 and TNT was available. C-4 was easier to work with. 28 lbs of c-4 tapped to a jeep would throw it 40 or 50 feet through the air. People who were 11b10 infantry felt like pack mules. Had to carry sea rats also came in box with cigarettes 4 sticks in a pack. I use to get the smokes from the people who did not smoke.each company had 3 rifle platoons and 1 mortar platoon. The battalion had a csc who were issues the 50 calibers. TOWs rockets. They had vehicles and are platoons who were not combat support company walked everywhere. Sometimes helicopters Huey's brought us to a location and we walked from there or csc transported us on drive and a halfs. We did lots of walking. Many of the infantry at the time we're going mechanized, not us. Spent very little time on APC.

​@@drsteelhead7278 and also their sidearm right?

@@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingForsidearms were issued to soldiers further back like artillery, rifleman just got rifle

What’s your assessment of the M-14? I’ve heard some disparaging things from other veterans.

If a modern soldier, especially an American one, were to ever run out of ammunition, something has gone _horribly_ wrong.

​@@Tank50ushow much ammo does a modern day US soldier take into a combat situation on average??

@@azndrew1 Today? Anywhere from 5 to 10 magazines, plus the one in their rifle. Though some may take more.

A gamer! And you’re comparing yourself to these men?

@@benkelly2190The pipeline of controller to enlisting is pretty wide

Or guys that survived long enough to know better. There is a saying "Ammo is like money, there's never enough when you absolutely need it". Or as Clint Smith says "I have never heard anyone say they had too much ammunition in a fight".

Never too much ammo, ever. It made sense 80 years ago, it still holds true today.

It just shows how high their testosterone levels were compared to today. Average guy was 5’6” and weighed 140 carrying ammo like it’s going out of style. Now u hear people saying 200 rounds of 5.56 is too much. 😂

@@tufelhunden5795tf does testosterone have to do with it☠️

@@inreallife530 it builds strength. It’s why the average small man back then was stronger than the average bigger man now. The current young men have lower t levels than I do in my mid fifties. Mine, in my twenties, was lower than my grandfathers in his 60’s. We are becoming weaker and something is attacking our T. That all I was getting at. They carried a heavier rifle, heavier ammo and supplies while 3” shorter and 30 pounds lighter.

Two 100 round belts of 7.62x51mm NATO weighs 12 pounds. So 200 .30-06 rounds plus the clips should be a little heavier as they’re slightly larger cartridges.

​@@PitFriend1maybe 26-28 pounds probably considering that the 30-.06 is larger and you have double the amount

depends my grandfather had some laying around of m2ap black tip steel core rounds which are tool steel bullets that go through a 1inch of steel

​@crossfire2045 thats a lotta weight just for ammo damn. At least soldiers back then didnt have to hump the bigass rucksacks todays soldiers use

​@@PitFriend1I think 26 pounds 30 if they are in BAR mags

Did the military switch to all M4's? I carried an M16A2, carrying handle removed with full rail system and various attachments ( red dot, back-up iron sights, flashlight, vertical front handle, etc. ). This was when I went to Iraq in 05-06.

@@tattooedman42yep. Even guard and reserve have the M4 now. The M9 is also gone replaced by the Sig Sauer M17 which is a P320 with manual safety. The M17 is a nice shooting pistol, better than the M9, in my opinion.

@@edmondlau511 Thank you for the update.

Yes sir! I still do to this day. I fill my dump pouch with mags

I was Army, infantry, between 2004 and 2008. The standard was 7, but most of us carried at least 11 mags. Edit: When we were deployed.

That study was determined to be flawed but it did cause a change in marksmanship training for the US Army. I do not know about the other branches so I mean no slight.

@@lyntwo - Got a reference for the study? Interesting...

Of course, many soldiers weren't in combat roles where firing their rifle would be expected. An army needs enormous numbers of people in support roles. Drivers, mechanics, cooks, etc. My grandfather never fired his rifle in anger, but that's not surprising given that he was a carpenter. He was with HQ a few miles back from the front line fixing things. If he needed to use his rifle, something was going extremely wrong.

@@thomasdalton1508 My British grandfather spend the whole war on defence in Egypt in a trench whilst tanks fought in the desert. My American grandfather was dropping bombs on Japan and survived, only to die in the Korean war a few years later. Was certainly not fair where you got posted or what would happen to you there.

@@cattysplat Absolutely. You serve how and where the army needs you. My grandfather wanted to be a radio operator, but the army couldn't care less what he wanted. He was more useful to them as a carpenter (since that was what he was trained as in civilian life), so that's what they told him he had to do. War and fairness have nothing to do with each other.

its not a hate crime.

its not a hate crime, anyone that says that might have something wrong in their heads, but yet again, we think differently

​@@HesNotThatScary The comment was a joke about presumably wearing a German uniform

good.

@@ordavis that took me a while to realize, lol

But I found that was actually about right. We'd sling 1 MAYBE 2 bandoliers...

Yeah because of that reason they switched to 5.56, because it is lighter and you can carry way more ammo. The same ammount of 30-06 would be really heavy.

​I read 300 rnds of 30 06 is almost 18 pounds. 300 556 is about 8. Dont know how accurate that is though​@@kuessebrama

The .30-'06 round is not substantially different in size, weight or power from the German 8mm round used against Allied forces. The 8mm Mauser round is marginally more powerful.

Luckily you won't feel it much

@@ZaHandle You most definitely will. As it's fired from a semi-automatic, you'll likely only be hit by 1, which isn't enough to *instantly* kill you in most cases, however you'll probably die shortly after if you're hit in any vital area.

To be fair the guys toting a mosin needed extra room to carry a mallet to shoot what they had.

I think that was on the belt 60 each of the ammo packs could hold 3 5rd clips I think they were on paper issued an extra 3 packs of 20 rounds to refill there pouches or to give to the DPM gunner plus before combat if you could you would load 5 into the rifle giving you 65-125 rounds Germans were similar except I think there pouches could hold 20 rounds and the Japanese had 80 in front pouches and 80 in the back pouch the Brits used bandoliers to carry rifle ammo as the belt pouches were for bren gun mags so on paper I think Brits carried 80 in 1 bandolier

The soviets were lucky if they even had a rifle, much less ammo. They were resuppled by stripping the dead and wounded.

@@jonthinks6238 who told you such BS? You might be surprised, but infantry regiments the western military district was almost fully rearmed to semi/full auto rifles by 1941 according to the 04/401 template freely available online. You're can search (04/401 штат советской армии) and see some pictures. Obviously not all the units were rearmed, but rearmament of the western military district was almost completed. Which means that the old rifles were taken away for storage and new were given out. It gives us the rifles given out to the people after the mass mobilization was called up. The amount of mosin rifles produced throughout history is 37 million. 32 of them were produced by the Soviet Union. By 1941 Soviet Union had about 9 million Mosin rifles. The amount of soldiers in the Soviet army on 22nd of June 5,7 million. Apart from rifles soldiers also had machine guns, SMG's, pistols (for officers and commissaries according to 04/401 and 04/751 templates as well as some non combat troops). So if we just arm every soldier with a Mosin rifle, we'll be left with 3.3 million Mosin rifles together with all the other weapon types. Therefore every soldier had at least some weapon and didn't have to loot the dead for ammo unless for emergency circumstances like encirclements, which granted, happened a lot in the beginning of the war.

@@jonthinks6238 That's a myth originating from Nazi propaganda and spread by Hollywood.

Machine Gunner and assistant gunner back than carried wore out 1911 45 acp. Never jammed and throwing a rock is more accurate. I civilian world I owned a Springfield and a few other 45 acp in 1911 and they were accurate. The military 45 we had was WWII issue

In VN selected riflemen each carried a belt o M-60 ammo. In addition the assistant gunner carried at least one can and a couple of belts of 60 ammo. You would hump either a belt of 60 ammo, a claymore or a LAW. Personally I carried 250-300 rounds of 5.56 mm. Never got low on ammo…. Thank God, but if you’re firing at full auto you can burn through it pretty fast.

What the hell is that supposed to mean? It's not like soldiers put fire on random objects!!

You obviously have NO idea what you are talking about. You are not at the range, you shoot at whatever you think the fire is coming from, and you pray and cuss at the same time.

@@doogleticker5183 It means don't run out of ammo. Because a soldier with no ammo is a defenceless sitting duck waiting to get picked off.

It's meant to be used when you're temporarily out of combat and have time to restock.

actually the bar man had two guy helping to tote its ammo

@@jeffriley-lq5np that is also true, but still, he would carry all these ammo.

Bros cheering on a bunch of r*peist

You would. The .30-06 round weighs roughly 26 grams. That's bullet, case, powder and primer. If you carry 200 of the things that's roughly 5.2 kg of extra weight. Not an extreme amount, but something that is very noticeable.

@@dr.krimson1010 Ah yeah you’d definitely be feeling that weight especially over a distance! Thanks very much for explaining that to me man I appreciate you taking the time🙂

@@davidmurphy8364 imagine being the guy hoarding 1,000 rounds on him absolute unit

A lot

It sucks with the IBA. It is like carrying around a REALLLY FAT BABY.

They were not using AP ammo in WWII. No one was using body armor back then. And no standard small arm is penetrating heavy armor. AP ammo would be useless and cost more

i mean if I had a gun I would to

They were doing that whole "when you need ammo, it will be laying around" shit. I am not going to say they gave a SHIT about us, but they REALLY didn't care about these guys.

The average WW2 GI was malnourished and grew up without sufficient caloric intake, usually leading to stunted growth. That's why they were all 5'6 and 140lbs.

😂😂 I think mister Enfield would have something to say about that

It has certainly Won The War against many a soldier's thumb!

"...unalived..." Dead ? Don't be afraid, it won't hurt you, just say it. "D E A D" Dead... ☆

Do you mean En-blocs?

GTA is stupid. Need to quit playing that poison

@@Jay931 wdym? GTA6 will be awesome for sure^^

And more planes were shot down during WWII than currently exist, if I remember correctly.

That was nice, when we could just customize our load outs. It suckes going back to garrison and playing the Class A game again. I swear I would volunteer for deployments just to get out of wearing that monkey suite. I HATED GARRISON.

I carried 240. 1 extra mag in my sac.