Full Metal Jacket
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Topic: Full Metal Jacket
Posted By: Honkytonk
Subject: Full Metal Jacket
Date Posted: May 18 2022 at 1:38pm
| I have a question for the war movie buffs in the group. On my movie poster for "Full Metal Jacket", the helmet has some rounds held in place by a band. I thought maybe 7.62x51, but they look larger. (30/06?), although they could have used "artistic license" for effect. They also look to be joined at the base by some sort of clip? Any thoughts? Thanks! |
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Posted By: britrifles
Date Posted: May 18 2022 at 1:45pm
| M1 Garand enbloc clip? I’ll have to look up the poster. |
Posted By: britrifles
Date Posted: May 18 2022 at 2:25pm
| Saw the photo, looks like MG belt links. |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: May 18 2022 at 3:40pm
| So most likely 7.62. I suspect it was common for troops to carry extra ammo for the M-60 gunner. Thanks! |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: May 18 2022 at 6:35pm
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Looks like M-60 "pig" ammo. 7.62 linked in M-80 links? 7 rounds linked would go through an M-60 in a second so not very practical. Maybe just a prop, maybe Bravado on the part of the soldier. Unless very early the individual weapon took 5.56 mm. ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 9:12am
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You carry it for luck ------------- Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts. |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 1:14pm
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..I'm not gonna carry it! YOU carry it! I'm too old fer that stuff. ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 1:20pm
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Oh like 3 footed rabbits?  ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 1:20pm
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HA ha, I used to say that when the c6 gunner would try to hand me 2 full ammo cans for his pig... |
Posted By: Marco1010
Date Posted: May 20 2022 at 3:17pm
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There are quite a few variants of the poster, but the give away is probably the one that shows an M-60 gunner carrying the machine gun over his shoulder. He wears the "born to kill" labelled helmet, and its clear that the ammo under the helmet band is a set of about 20 rounds of linked M-60 ammo. Perhaps his " last Stand" back up ammo?
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Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: May 20 2022 at 3:47pm
| Did not know that. I have the poster with just the helmet... |
Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: May 20 2022 at 5:33pm
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Honkytonk wrote:Posted By: Marco1010
Date Posted: May 20 2022 at 10:28pm
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Thats the poster ! I seem to recall that M-60 Gunners always had a bottle of lubricating oil under the hemet band as well. A great Movie, ironic that all the battle scenes were filmed in a disused gas works south of london UK.
I always wonder what they did with all the transplanted palm trees after filming finished. Supposedly the cast got ill from all the toxic chemicals on the old gas works site. |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: May 21 2022 at 3:54am
| I think they also carried plastic bottles of bug repellent on their helmets. I wonder if it was DEET? I still have a full little plastic bottle of the original Muskol DEET. 95%, if I remember correctly. Still works awesome although it will strip the finish off a rifle. |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: May 21 2022 at 4:27pm
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It is deet, eats leather and you.
------------- Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts. |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: May 21 2022 at 5:23pm
| it will also melt a nylon tent - my BIL proved that on a memorial day camping outing years ago , its still a main ingredient in bug spray i think but im not so certain these days as i seldom use bug spray or sun screen , its a fault that my skin doctor keeps pointing out , biut im on the downhill side of dieing so i cant bring myself to change my old ways , |
Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: May 22 2022 at 2:56am
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Deet causes all kinds of issues, not to be used on kids! |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: May 22 2022 at 7:38pm
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i have an emergency supply but i never use it on adults either , rather suffer a couple bites if possible not but dont use anything on my skin these days as its a semipermeable membrane i do not wish penetrated anymore , i feel the same of things we ingest for pains and such , i use nothing as long as i can get away with it , only when my back goes out of place on a weekend and i cant get to the doc till monday do i consider and aspirin , advil , tylinol and such , then i rotate them so i dont load up on any one item - i can limp by till i get it fixed , so far no drugs at all , im hop[ing to keep it that way till i go in my sleep [hopefully] or whatever
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Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 11:37am
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How does DEET affect the nervous system? Deet interferes with the normal breaking down of acetylcholine (ACh), the most common neurotransmitter in the central nervous system While I was in the army they issued us a product call Nero it was 99% Deet with a carrier, always made us sick.
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Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 11:47am
| I went moose hunting in northern Manitoba several years ago in early September. Unseasonably warm. I have NEVER seen mosquitoes like that and I was raised in Petawawa and Shilo! Thank God I had my 95% DEET! Even the guys with Deep Woods Off were begging me to share! It also works pretty good on ticks, but took the finish off a Ruger No1 I owned back then. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 12:01pm
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The best mossie repellent I ever found isn't a mosquito repellent at all. "Avon Skin So Soft Original Body Lotion with Jojoba"!------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 12:50pm
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Works for me. ------------- Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 1:45pm
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& we have such "Creamy, lotioney hands" too!  ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 2:14pm
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But no bugs ------------- Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts. |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 3:00pm
| I'm not sure if they are still around, but in the 70's working on the railway they supplied Amway bug repellent. It seemed pretty good. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: May 24 2022 at 11:55am
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True! ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |