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13 Aug 2024 Garand Picture of the Day
Members of the U.S. Army’s 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment participate in a live national radio broadcast at Fort Ord in November 1942. The unit was composed of both stateside volunteers and Filipino soldiers who had escaped invading Japanese
forces in the Philippines. Photo credit U.S. Army
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Is this setup mean to represent action from the front line with live fire !
Cannot blame them to try and help increase the new recruit rate as the world was in a pretty poor state with the Axis and IJA all trying to dominate the planet I note it is almost a year to that day of infamy that President Roosevelt put to congress.
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Originally Posted by
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Is this setup mean to represent action from the front line with live fire !
That was what I took it to be. The heavy .30 cals have M1909 blanks though I think. Looks like...
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Having once spent 3 years stationed at Ft. Ord I can pretty much say that there is/was no safe space around the billets to fire live ammunition. Ord's rifle ranges were over the beach firing into the ocean. It was restricted waters. The machine gun ranges were inland and situated to fire into hills or a valley, so blanks seem to be what those men were firing.
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eb in oregon
there is/was no safe space around the billets to five live ammunition.
Even in our field camps if anyone issued live ammo around the billets, he could expect to go for the hi-jump. We too had written directives.
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