23 Nov 2021 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

Training at U. S. Army Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, July 1944

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[RCS]

Long time ago, I was at Camp McCoy, found an old photo from the time. I was an armorer and all the M1919A6's were collected and set up at 200 yards to train new gunners. Attachment 121649

[Bill Hollinger]

Long time ago, I was at Camp McCoy, found an old photo from the time. I was an armorer and all the M1919A6's were collected and set up at 200 yards to train new gunners. Attachment 121649

Aren't the A6s the buttstock model?

[RCS]

The metal butt stock comes right off. Sometimes the metal butt stock was used with the tripod and without the traversing and elevating mechanism. The bipod head and legs can removed from the A6 without any problem. In the old photo above, there was also a M37 that was converted to 1919A6Attachment 121667

[ssgross]

Long time ago, I was at Camp McCoy,

I was there in 2004 for a 2 week Nat'l Gaurd training. Barracks looked to be the same as they were back then...only with every third or 4th building either falling down or condemned. I think it had been closed or downsized for a while?, and was in the process of being updated. The rec center was brand new, just opened a few weeks earlier, along with a restaurant/canteen. I brought my gear with me and drove out to LaCrosse each evening to play hockey, and escape the non-air conditioned barracks, which was full of dust, mold, and likely lots of asbestos. It was abnormally hot that summer...and dank.

[RCS]

I heard there are thousands of Afghanistan refugees at Fort (name change) McCoy Wisc now