Re: BREN/BAR THOUGHTS

LOL- do not know about the  BAR being passed around  from first hand
knowledge, but all the menfolks  who were in the infantry in WW I, WW
BANANA WARS, WW II, and KOREAN WAR and later, the BAR gunner was saddled
with the  beast all of the time!

BUT, with the M-60, during training,  the members of the  gun team
routinely swapped off carrying it in return for another load.

sometimes, during combat ops, the  gunner and assist gunner  might swap
off carrying it, but the ammo bearers, and other GIs wee equally heavily
burdened with weapons and ammo equal to or surpassing the  weight of an
LMG with a 25 round partial belt or (rarely) a 100 rd belt loaded into
an assault pack.

and i agree- on a route march it would	make life interesting to see
what happens if the  bad guys  launch an ambush and the squad SAW might
not be	where the SL, PSG or LT thought it was!

actual operation (except for ammo) should not be a problem as we all
were trained to use- maintian all infantry weapons.

interesting about the belt fed BREN LMG.  i know  i saw and read about
the UK Army going over to this way back yonder when . . . . .

i must have  then assumed that the FN-MAG ( later seen from a distance )
was this  weapon in the GPMG mode. the aussies and kiwis in the RVN used
M-60 LMGs, FN rifles shotguns, and an odd looking SMG in Tay Ninh
Province when i was there in 1969. 

do not remember seeing any magazine fed BREN LMGs.

DAWGIE