I'm glad somebody gave the execrable Chauchat the disrespect it deserves. As Gunny said, the French should stick to cooking.
It was good. Gunny Ermey is informative and entertaining. I guess this show will be weapons oriented than Mail Call.
As long as they’re reviewing Awful Machine Guns, I wonder if they’ll be able to find a working model of a Breda 30 anywhere — or any ammunition for it. Ugh! If possible, worse than the Chauchat, if only because the externally lubricated ammo was a dirt and grit magnet.
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Interesting, but it’s mainly Ermey being Ermey. Anyone who didn’t like Mail Call won’t like Lock and Load.
Does anyone remember the old WWI veteran who used to be on the History Channel? I am sure he has been dead for some time but one thing I recall him saying was the Chauchaut was not as bad as everyone said. He did actually use them.
It rocks!
Not only entertaining and educational but funny as heck!
My husband said “Come and watch this show, you’ll love it.” And I did.
As a gal just starting to learn about guns, this show is a gold mine.
Great stuff!
USMC BUMP!
I watched 2 episodes today, they were a blast.
Loved it! Watched the episode yesterday where he got to fly the B-2 ... ooo, major envy!!!
Have there been others?
Watermelons everywhere are cowering in fear.
....pretty good. 
I actually watched two of these with hubby yesterday and they were fascinating. I’m not at all into guns and usually find stuff like this boring, but it was very interesting, historically and scientifically informative and just fun to watch. He had very interesting guests who keep up the old antique cannons and stuff.
We were at the BMW rally in Tennessee last month and they had a display of old motorcycles, includng a war one with a side car with a machine gun. I said, now there is a side car I’d ride in!
GyG: On phony gunnys, cocked and locked, etc.
“Again, in my opinion, I believe the D.I. was the most realistic and honest film yet made regarding the experience of Marine Corps recruit training. I expect I am in the minority here, judging by responses to this that I have received across the Internet, but that is my opinion—take it or leave it.
Jack Webb has been dead these many years, and Ermey has gone on to acclaim as an actor and personality. Ermey, having reached the rank of staff sergeant while on active duty, has now been officially appointed/promoted to the “honorary” rank of gunnery sergeant by the Marine Corps, a title which he uses as a television personality, etc.
This serves to remind me that Benjamin Franklin was the recipient of one or more “honorary” doctorates. Honorary doctorates are not “earned” degrees, nor conferred on the basis of work done or academic achievements met, etc.. I have read that Franklin thereafter went by... “Doctor Franklin.” Some say he even insisted that members of Congress address him as such. Whether or not anyone ever took him seriously and complied, I don’t know. Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors), and others, BTW, have also been promoted to honorary Marine Corps ranks, but of course, Nabors was best known anyway as a comic.
I have seen Ermey’s performances in several movies, and I agree that he is a pretty fair actor, maybe even better than fair, in some cases. As to his judgement in choice of certain parts/roles he accepts to play...well that’s another story, I think. I read an RLE Interview (below) where he was questioned on that point, and I believe he just alluded to the amount of pay he received for that dubious part in question.
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Interview...
http://www.ugo.com/channels/filmtv/features/rleeermey/
I do think, and I must honestly say, that the character he has developed on his television presentations is something less than desireable for the image of a United States Marine. In fact it may indeed be a throwback to the old pre-WW II films depicting the military sergeant as a less than super-intelligent character. “
Ref
Gunny G’s 1956, The Making of Marines...
http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/gunnyg/jackwebb.html
*****
(Lock and Load?) Locked and Cocked!
Ref
Marine Mail Guards...
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/dickg/mailguards.html
“Cocked And Locked!”
And, in a ‘circular letter’, “Subject: Miscellaneous Instructions, dated 13 December 1921, from The Major General Commandant....
1. In cases where trains carrying Marines guarding mails cross the Canadian Boundry enroute to another point in the United States, the Marines, upon crossing the boundry, shall place their arms in a registered mail-sack and turn over the sack to Canadian Post Office Officials (who accompany the train) until such time as the train re-crosses into the United States. Under no circumstances shall Marines exercise a military function in Canadian teritory.
2. Shotguns preferably will be carried with filled magazine and empty chamber, in order to avoid accidents.
3. Pistols may be carried loaded, cocked and locked. The holster should be fastened to the leg and the flap tucked or tied back, so as not to interfere with drawing. The Marine (if not carrying other arms) should carry his hand on the pistol butt.
4. Arrangements should be made for each mail-coach to carry a supply of ordinary railroad flares, which should be ignited and thrown out of the car if an attack is made on it. Also, in case of attack on a car, interior lights should be put out. On trains lighted with electricity the guard should be prepared to turn out all lights.
5. The Marines should be continually reminded that they will use their firearms to wound or kill only when necesarry to prevent robbery or theft of the mails. The use of firearms except for this purpose must be avoded.
6. Where it is decided to convene a summary court-martial and a shortage of officers exists, a request may be made on the local Recruiting Officer for one or more officers to report for this temporary duty. When they report, the Commanding Officer may order them as members of the Court-Martial. In such cases, the officer or officers requested should be junior to the officer ordering the court.
7. Cases have arisen where men have been transferred to barracks without punishment for the offense which caused their transfer. Except in cases serious enough to warrant trial by General Court-Martial, men should be tried, before transfer, by a Deck Court or Summary Court-Martial, as it will be impracticable to bring them to trial after transfer. Men committing offenses warranting a general court-martial should be held at their station until a decision in the premises has been received from Headquarters.
8. The official title of the Detachments is —U.S. Marine Corps Detached Guard Company ( Place ). For instance, “U.S. MARINE CORPS DETACHED GUARD COMPANY, WASHINGTON, D.C.”. Hereafter no other title will be used.
9. Commanding Officers must take steps to provide a suitable Christmas and New Years for their commands. No doubt much can be done for their entertainment by enlisting the good offices of local welfare organizations.
10. Precious orders regarding transfer, for discharge of men from U.S. Marine Corps Detached Guard Companies to nearest Recruiting Office or Barracks, are rescinded. Hereafter Commanding Officers of U.S. Marine Corps Detached Guard Companies will discharge their men in the same manner as any other Commanding Officer.
(signed) LOGAN FELAND
by direction”
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I watched it..it was very entertaining. I was glad to see the Dillon guys on there, thats where I get all my reloading supplies.