RAKKASANS Medium Machine Gun Basic Qualification and Advanced Situational Training Exercises MAJ BRUCE F. BEYERS 01 October 2004 3 rd Brigade, 101 st Airborne Air Assault Division “No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. - General George S. Patton, Jr.”
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RAKKASANS
Medium Machine Gun Basic Qualification and Advanced Situational Training Exercises
MAJ BRUCE F. BEYERS
01 October 2004
3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Air Assault Division
“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. - General George S. Patton, Jr.”
British suffer the greatest loss of manpower in a single day: 60,000 casualties, 19,000 KIA.
9 out of 10 are victim of the MG08 The 2,400 year old shock effect of horse cavalry was once and for all laid to rest at the Somme. German’s were credited with developing a brilliant defense in depth interlaced with machinegun fire
“The German Defensive Role was Magnificent.” GEN(R) Dupuy ROLLUP: KIA
Britain: 908,371
France: 1,357,800
US: 50,585
Germany: 1,808,546
Italy: 462,391
Russia: 1,700,000
BOTTOM LINE: The machinegun had utility on the Battlefield
German Concept. Machineguns fight as sections of at least two.
riflemen are arrayed to protect the machineguns; the highest casualty producing weapon.
Allied Casualties were 4,460 on the initial assault, relatively light
Hitler had been outsmarted by GEN Dwight D. Eisenhower
He was convinced that the attack would occur at Pas de Calais
The massive invasion fleet, over 4,000 ships, only served to reinforce in Hitler’s mind that the attack at Normandy was a rouse
Hitler rebuffed by his own miscalculation aims to make the allies pay
His orders are: attrit, counterattack, defeat and then execute a fighting withdrawal to alternate positions to begin the sequence again. In short make the allies pay for every inch of French soil.
German planners developed a superb defense in depth that utilized the massive hedgerows arrayed in a checkerboard fashion across the French farmland to greatest effect. When allied combat power was exhausted he would action his SS Panzer divisions to deliver the Hammer Blow.
The Allies had no concept of what lay before them. The real battle for Europe, “The Bocage” began.
BDUs (T-shirt, belt, socks, boots) 2 set (top and bottom)KPOT 1 eachLBV 1 completeBlack gloves w/inserts 1 pairRucksack w/seasonal packing list 1 eachNOD/NVG (AN/PVS-7A/B/D) or PVS 14 1 eachMotorola and or AN/PRC-128 1 per crewWeapon (M240B, M4) 1 per crewM122 w/pintle/T&E/AG gear 1 per crew
- sight adjustment tool 1 per crew- reamer, large and small 1 per crew- spare barrel 1 per crew- scraper tool 1 per crew- combination tool 1 per crew
M24/M22 Binoculars 1 per crewM49/M50 Spotter Scope 1 per crewAN/GVS-5 LSR RNG Finder 1 per crewM145 MGO 1 per crewAN/PEQ-2A 1 per crew