[Free Vulcan]

In Iowa, if we don't have it and we can't get it, we just make it - American style.

[Any Fate But Submission]

Love it. This is the kind of ingenuity and “can do” spirit that made the USA great.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I bet Obama is pissed.

[dirtboy]

Winkowski and his two partners are pleased to see their invention helping other soldiers, but more importantly he says it’s good to see the impact the system has on the enemy. “And I think it’s gonna make a huge impact on their mindset when they are engaging U.S. forces with these system and they are coming up against basically a wall of lead because the tremendous firepower these systems can now give machine gunners,” he said.

The carrier system allows a machine gunner to fire up to 500 rounds of linked ammunition.

A story to warm the hearts of gun enthusiasts everywhere.

[csmusaret]

What is a speed loading shoot?

[Eye of Unk]

I have not seen it but what comes to mind is the cans they used in the Matrix movies for the walking gun carriages.

[w1andsodidwe]

Yes, Iowa ingenuity. Can’t tell you the number of times I watched my Dad and my Uncles make a piece of dead equipment work again. But, at that time, I thought all men had this talent.

[CIDKauf]

Necessity is the Mother of invention!

[mad puppy]

“...where both did some work on farms.”

When give a choice, ‘farm-kid’ gets the nod everytime. I’ve worked with a wide swath of humanity and farm-kids are the hardest working and creative workers who generally have no use for emotional drama.

[X-spurt]

There’s a little monthly magazine just for this stuff, Farm Show. Its just stuffed full of this kind of things, some not so good and some great, but all interesting.

This thought process must come from all day row crop farming and all winter with not much to do.

Whatever its called or caused by, its great!

[Vendome]

See my next post for another invention that done on the field of Afghanistan.

[A. Morgan]

http://militarytimes.com/blogs/outside-the-wire/2011/10/20/iowa-guard-makes-predator-like-ammo-pack/

[USMCPOP]

Good hi-res picture here: http://www.ng.mil/news/archives/2011/12/images/120211-Iowa-full.jpg

[justlurking]

Looks like they've been watching Predator, Terminator, etc.

It's a continuous feed device for what looks like a SAW.

[Vendome]

I have two of these backpacks and they are great!

Sucking water sucks.

This thing will spray the water into yer parched throat, clean up a small hazmat spill or irrigate a wound.

Luv it!

http://www.geigerrig.com/index.html

[treetopsandroofs]

“Sergeant Winkowski says they didn’t have an ammo carrier to lug the extra bullets and there was a lull when they had to reload.”

If they weren’t so anti-life, anti-American and anti-gun, Big Media would have taught their reporters and editors by now that you don’t load bullets into a gun.

[justlurking]

Looks like someone had already built one. They just aren't getting them into the field:

http://www.tyrtactical.com/products/details/backpacks/mico-light-and-heavy-machine-gunners-assault-pack/

It's not cheap: $4,000.

[treetopsandroofs]

“Sergeant Winkowski says they didn’t have an ammo carrier to lug the extra bullets and there was a lull when they had to reload.”

No, Dar. Sergeant Winkowski did not say this.

[TWhiteBear]

Very well done, Sergeant Winkowski,
I am forced to admit that there is now one excellent light infantry device that the US Marines did not invent, and should rapidly adopt.
TWB

[ryan71]

Now they need one to feed shotgun shells for urban combat.

[smokingfrog]

I want one.