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[quote="George G"]That is correct. What is shown in the top photo is a gun. What we all talk about are small arms and even side arms.[/quote

A gun isn't just artillery tho a GPMG is also called a gun in the army.

All of a sudden "BANGSTICK" seems more sensible.

Browning_grrl wrote:

Gundoc wrote:A small arm is anything 30mm and under.
A gun is anything over that. Interestingly, even an 81mm mortar is a small arm

Not in the USMC. An 81mm bomb is ordnance.

But we're not in the USMC, this is a British forum after all.

BamBam wrote:

Hear Hear!

Blu wrote:

Browning_grrl wrote:

Gundoc wrote:A small arm is anything 30mm and under.
A gun is anything over that. Interestingly, even an 81mm mortar is a small arm

Not in the USMC. An 81mm bomb is ordnance.

I think Gundoc was referring to the mortar tube itself and not the bomb. Likewise the British Army refers to the bomb as ordnance.

And yes, you are definitely NOT the Corps. razz

And yes, you are definitely NOT the Corps. razz

You're quite correct, I went one better although when I did it Para Depot was in Aldershot, Hampshire and not Catterick as stated in the link razz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_company

Blu wrote:

And yes, you are definitely NOT the Corps. razz

You're quite correct, I went one better although when I did it Para Depot was in Aldershot, Hampshire and not Catterick as stated in the link razz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_company

Don't sound much different from Quantico and Fort Benning. No disrespect to the Paras though - fine regiment. I have a good friend who was a Para during the Falklands do. :)