Weapons mount, Please make it stop.

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Weapons mount, Please make it stop.

Post by major519 » Sat Feb 25, 2023 12:37 pm

Greetings fellow mule enthusiasts.
Anything other than a TOW or 106mm RR doesn’t belong on a mule, prove me wrong.
I’d like to get a conversation going as to why so many mule owners insist on attaching armament to their mules that doesn’t belong. I suppose it’s no different than all the “Rat Patrol” affectionados and their jeeps!
I don’t think that I’ve ever come across any pictures of mules being used as weapons platforms in service, aside from the first two I mentioned.
1968 M274A5 USMC 325489
1966 M274A2 USMC 333007
1958 M274 US ARMY 2B3379
1970 M38A1 CDN3 70-08715
1981 M101CDN Manac 3/4 trailer
1984 M1009 CUCV
1943 Converto Airborne Trailer


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Post by Guam0311 » Sat Feb 25, 2023 9:54 pm

Interesting post, My time in the Corps in the eighties, only thing that was mounted on the Mules were TOW's which were operated by the weapons companies. The rifle company that I was with Mules would follow stacked high with C-rats then later MRE boxes. (seemed like 4 feet high?) Never got to ride them unless you were wounded, sick or dead. always amazed of how they could climb the steep hills of Pendleton.

I see people mount M-60 on them , maybe Vietnam? how about a BAR or air cooled 30?? LOL to each his own.

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Re: Weapons mount, Please make it stop.

Post by m37-man » Fri Mar 10, 2023 8:48 pm

Why stop? How about a minigun?
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Re: Weapons mount, Please make it stop.

Post by major519 » Sat Mar 11, 2023 4:01 am

That’s cool!
I was teasing with this post as I see so many M2 and M60 MGs fitted but I’ve never actually seen even one period in country photo of same….
1968 M274A5 USMC 325489
1966 M274A2 USMC 333007
1958 M274 US ARMY 2B3379
1970 M38A1 CDN3 70-08715
1981 M101CDN Manac 3/4 trailer
1984 M1009 CUCV
1943 Converto Airborne Trailer


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