Summary: Check out the <a href="https://armyflashcards.com">Army Flashcards website</a> for more Ranger School resources!<br> Welcome to the Army Flashcards Ranger School Podcast! This is episode 11, Ranger Handbook Chapter 10- Machine Gun Employment. In this episode we cover the all of the important concepts associated with employing your most casualty producing weapons in combat. The various machine gun topics covered in the Ranger Handbook are machine gun specifications (M249 SAW, M240B, M2, and MK19), machine gun terms (line of sight, burst of fire, trajectory, maximum ordinate, cone of fire, beaten zone, sector of fire, primary sector of fir, secondary sector of fire, final protective fire, final protective line, and principal direction of fire), classes of automatic weapons fire (grazing fire, plunging fire, enfilade fire, frontal fire, flanking fire, oblique fire), classes of fire respect to gun (fixed traversing, searching, traversing and searching, swinging traverse, free gun), machine gun employment in the offense, machine gun employment in the defense, control of machine guns to include ammunition planning, and machine gun TTPs.<br>
