Mail Call: Difference between revisions
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Mail Call: Difference between revisions
[[Image:MCM1Bazooka-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A picture is shown comparing the M1 Bazooka and the Bazooka slide instrument.]]
[[Image:MCM1Bazooka-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Gunny with an M1 Bazooka.]]
==M1A1 Bazooka==
When covering Bazookas, lots of WWII footage is shown of soldiers firing [[M1 Rocket Launcher "Bazooka"|M1A1 Bazooka]] rocket launchers.
[[Image:MCM9A1Bazooka-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Gunny with an M1A1 Bazooka.]]
[[Image:MCM9A1Bazooka-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A soldier aims an M1A1 Bazooka.]]
[[Image:MCM9A1Bazooka-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The soldier shows off the M1A1 Bazooka.]]
[[Image:MCM9A1Bazooka-4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A soldier loads an M1A1 Bazooka.]]
[[Image:MCM9A1Bazooka-5.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A soldier fires an M1A1 Bazooka.]]
Revision as of 03:35, 14 January 2009
Mail Call is a television show on the history channel in which retired Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee Ermey answers letters and E-mails asking military questions from the past to today. Gunny answers these questions in interesting ways, usually showing us the information hands on and testing it for the show. This page covers the weapons he has tested through out the series.
I have the best of Seasons 1 and 2 and the SNAFU DVD which has select episodes, so this is not a complete analysis of the series. Please wait until I have finished my work on the page before adding more information. - Gunmaster45
The M1 Garand rifle has made several appearances on the show including an episode in which an M7 rifle grenade is fired from it and an episode in which 101st paratrooper re-enactors are seen armed with them. In almost every episode, an M1 is seen on Gunny's jeep saddle.
In one episode R. Lee Ermey tests a Browning M1919A4 mounted on the pintle of his jeep. In most episodes, this pintle is fitted with a "dummy" .30 caliber with no bolt or action.
One of the 101st re-enactors keeps a Colt New Service in a chest holster. While it would be more accurate for them to be giving M1917 revolvers with a lanyard loop, not many people notice this kind of mistake.
In one episode, Gunny is sent an E-mail asking how grenade launchers work. To show us, he went to Camp Pendleton, California to see how the Marine recruits test them, firing M203 grenade launchers from M16A2 rifles.
For the episode in which Gunny introduces the XM29 OICW, he first introduces the M16A2 fitted with an M203, as if the gun is now completely obsolete due to this gun.
In one episode, Gunny shows us a new gun in development by Heckler & Koch, the XM29 Objective Individual Combat Weapon (OICW), basically a Heckler & Koch G36 assault rifle fitted with a 20mm five shot semi-automatic grenade launcher with a heavy computer scope to calculate airburst. Since everyone has already seen the G36 fire, they only fire the 20mm launcher on this show. While weighing a hefty 18lbs in current form, they hope to shave down the weight to 11lbs in the future.
In one episode, a viewer asks how a grenade works. Gunny heads out to Camp Pendleton california to see the Marines uses grenades. Throughout the training, M67 hand grenades are used by the Marine recruits and the instructors. Unfortunately, Gunny was not allowed to toss real grenades, so he settled for chucking some duds and editing in real ones blowing up.
