Re: [OT] Linking Ammo

At 8:49 PM +0200 6/24/02, K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:
>
>I'm slightly puzzled here. When I was in the Bundeswehr, we sometimes
had to
>link up practice ammunition for our MG 3 (aka MG42 to WWII gamers).
Linking
>by hand wasn't nice, but we had a small hand-cranked machine. It looked
a
>bit like an old coffee grinder. Feed in the belt from the side, drop in
the
>cartridges from the top and crank away  The work went reasonably well
with
>that. Does my memory fail me or don't your units have something similar
?

Nope, we have them. Its an additional component to carry around and 
use with your ever spiraling quantity of infantry kit.
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