The .50 caliber M2 machine gun was designed in 1918, near the end of World War I by John Browning.
Production began in 1921 and the weapon was designed so a single receiver could be turned into seven different variants by adding jackets, barrels or other components.
Roughly 94 years after the first production run of M2 machine guns came off the assembly line, the 324th weapon produced made it to Anniston Army Depot for overhaul and upgrad
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This weapon was my BABY in Viet Nam. I rode in a 'gun truck' along with 4-5 other trucks... we supplied fire power in the kill-zone in the event the convoy was ambushed. I fired BABY every morning in tests fires, as we did with every weapon on the truck, as the convoy was forming up. I still have my timing keys for it. I loved that gun. she got so hot in my first ambush ( too much adrenaline... forgot to change the barrel ) she was goin' off all by herself...
