POTD: .50 BMG on the Submarine Tender USS Frank Cable
TFB’s Photo Of The Day – Today we’re aboard USS Frank Cable which is a submarine tender.
The location is the Pacific Ocean in December 2019, and we’re watching sailors as they fire a .50 caliber machine gun. It’s a pretty cool image taken from above.
Below: Hull Maintenance Technician 3rd Class Lainy J. Boawn and Chief Gunners Mate Remus A. Feliciano conduct a weapons exercise with a .50 caliber machine gun aboard the submarine tender USS Frank Cable.
Caption: Hull Maintenance Technician Joshua McManus fires a .50 caliber machine gun
Sailors assigned to USS Frank Cable (AS 40) aboard the submarine tender Frank Cable load .50 caliber ammunition during a weapons exercise as the ship conducts sea trials. Frank Cable, forward deployed to the island of Guam, repairs, rearms, and re-provisions submarines and surface vessels in the Indo-Pacific region.
Caption: Hull Maintenance Technician 3rd Class Lainy J. Boawn and Seaman Johnathan R. Powers remove a .50 caliber machine gun barrel
Below: Hull Maintenance Technician Joshua McManus fires a .50 caliber machine gun aboard.
Below: Hull Maintenance Technician Joshua McManus fires a .50 caliber machine gun aboard the submarine tender USS Frank Cable
All photos by U.S. Navy, by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Derek Harkins.
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You really, REALLY want to train up on changing barrels with insulated gloves, even on the Deuce, which is unlikely to require it in combat.
I wonder if we could devise a practical brass catcher for shipboard use. All that brass is a terrible slip/trip hazard.