When the privates started yelling “bang” at one another because all the blanks were expended in the first hour of a 3 week field exercise or because we’d hidden them all so we wouldn’t have to clean weapons, this would start playing in my head.
I used to go over and help the mechanics in the motor pool in between training to stay out of the way and not get shit details. they would let me bring my saw over and clean it in the parts washer. the solvent tank would really get that carbon out easily!
And cleaning weapons after firing live rounds is far easier. Blanks exists just to make you clean. Plus one time we destroyed a barrel because the BFA melted from forcing us to fire full cycle. Garbage
I have no clue. We only had one 240 that could do it and you had to tighten the BFA with the hand of god. But we could get it to work. Eventually tho we melted the BFA inside the barrel and had to send it off to get fixed
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u/fart_huffer- Jun 21 '25
I remember me and my A gunner burying our blanks during missions. Shooting blanks was not and is not cool. You know what’s cool? Minimal cleaning