Ma Deuce

Today I got to fire the M2, a .50 caliber machine gun. (At a range, not at people.) It was actually pretty fun and educational; I had never fired one before. If you get the chance, try it out. The only real problem today was the heat. The weapon is metal; the mount for the weapon is metal; the HMMWV (High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, pronounced Humvee) the mount is mounted on is metal. All that metal at over 120 degrees Farenheit in direct sunlight gets HOT. I wish I had an egg so that I could have fried it on top of something. It is not possible to touch bare skin to the metal without getting burned. This spurred some other problems, but that is for another post.