16-250 Garand Picture of the Day - 96 Inf Div

[Mark in Rochester]

I suspect it's a safety measure as the troops are at the muzzle of hot guns. It would avoid a cookoff, clear chamber and open cover.

That makes sense if one round cooked-off the gun may run out the belt that would be rough on the troops just landed

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[browningautorifle]

if one round cooked-off the gun may run

That was what the drill was meant to avoid...