You sure have a pair of stones on you for a 12 year old...
Who are you to tell me what I did, or did not carry around?
But, FYI, it was an M-29A1 81mm... And yes, being the biggest guy on my team, I was the one stuck carrying the baseplate for 90% of the hike back to barracks. I did switch off and carried the barrel for a couple of miles so I could prop it up on the back of my neck and let my arms hang. Something you couldn't do with that friggin' baseplate due to its bulk and the fact that I had a ruck on my back and bullet launcher slung over my shoulder, and that friggin' steel pot bouncing around.
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And the type of combat unit determines the type of heavy weapons support you have and at what level.
Btw, the only time I dealt with an 81mm was doing 11C AIT (where I also obtained my Infantry cord). The Cav Troop I was assigned to had a 4.2 mounted on an M-106 directly assigned to their TOE. (wanna guess what the baseplate weighed on the SOB?).. I stuck around there for about 6 months when an opportunity came to reclassify as 19D and eventually become a track commander.
And since a Cav troop is the equivalent of a company, not a battalion, you once more show your complete ignorance. But then again, how many regiments have their own aviation troop and long range recon scouts?? Cav was definitely pretty cool!!... :0)
And unlike jokers like yourself, some of us have actual experience, and don't have to rely on Sgt.Rock comic books or daddy's war stories...
What's more amazing is that you have succeeded creating a far more extensive military career for me than anything I've discussed.
I'm still trying to figure out where you came up with ADA... Unless you were reflecting on your own severe bout of ADD, and made a freudian slip.
Must have been a tough childhood being a Ritalin junkie..
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