Zach's MK-19 and DShK story

[@NoxSalamander]

Nothing says military like disobeying clear instructions and getting mad at someone else for not fixing your fuckup.

[@ashwolf2006]

Pretty much.

[@phyllotaxis]

When I was a mechanic in the marines I got that a lot too lol. Worst was the time I got sent to fix a humvee that broke down during a field op. I ended up getting chewed out for an hour because it turned out one of the grunts tried to refuel it with water.

[@gipsydangeramericasmonster9632]

@@phyllotaxis wh- huh? they tried to refuel it with water? did they not pass high school chemistry or pay any attention in school if they went? how did they think water would fuel a humvee?

[@phyllotaxis]

​@@gipsydangeramericasmonster9632 They were keeping their extra water and fuel in identical jerry cans, idk if they were labelled but it's not like marines can read.

[@gipsydangeramericasmonster9632]

@@phyllotaxis true. Must be all the crayons they eat.

[@Emperor_of_all_Badgers]

That old DShK is probably one of the first ones America got and studied, hence why it's taken apart and scattered. We usually had quite a few facilities of a bunch of foreign junk completely off the record for a reason

[@MrPrussianjester]

'for a reason' being a good reason as most reasons reasonable people want avoid being "the reason" P.s do you smell toast?

[@lawfulfilly3084]

@@MrPrussianjester stroke?

[@Sercer25]

its leftover parts from our arms trafficking to syria

[@justat1149]

I mean, we still have a Hind D somewhere that we… acquired using Chinooks

[@justarandomtechpriest1578]

@@justat1149 it's in a museum

[@Dhips.]

It comes off like the Army version of Regular Show. Two privets are fooling around with a MK19, they read the manual, then ignore that is says "don't use CLP." and do it anyway, then when it melts on them they take it to Zach like he's Skips to "fix it" and he tells them "you used CLP didn't you? No I can't fix it." Sadly we never saw the crazy adventure the privets had when Zach tossed them out of the armory.

[@YungHi-Chew]

The two have to go raid the MK19 manufacturer before the SL finds out what happened to the MK19

[@spookith]

"mordecai and rigby that was the only mk 19 we had and we cant get a new one for the next few months you better find a way to fix this OR YOUR FIRED!!"

[@1gient]

Then the two get into a bowling rock off shooting competition involving grenades in some far away town or have to box an army of chupacabras or race God six times around the base while dodging tennis balls. All in order to get a new one because for whatever reason the supplier requires this random absurdity in order to get another one. Only to find out that a new shipment arrived with a replacement.

[@DarkMatter946]

I read that at priests

[@bioemiliano]

lmao it does sound like an episode of regular show

[@GenMav]

Zach really did work the most Customer Service job in the army.

[@cjnf11]

Rule number one - don't let them know you're competent. Zach was VERY competent.

[@timothychadwick8910]

I got to shoot the mk19 when I first got to the fleet. It was really fun. They gave me as a 20 year old a belt of HE and told me to go at it

[@mareczek00713]

Imagine being 20yo and being told to fire away a belt of grenades from a big fucking machine gun... I missed out on skipping military, we had no fun stuff like this in Poland but there would likely still be fun moments like that.

[@Kesssuli]

@@mareczek00713 On my service when i got to shoot with lmg we had to load our belts with every third with tracer round. But because i was last on that days training and somebody clearly ordered bit too many cases of traced rounds. So i got to shoot two belts. First belt whit every second round was tracer. And second belt loaded only with tracers... It was winter evening so it was getting dark. Story in short: There was quite little need to use actuall sights. It was pretty much like spanking those steel targets with flaming whip on night time. That poor bastard who had to clean that gun afterwards....

[@msobota4080]

@@mareczek00713 The moments are not worth it, trust me. U.S military is a piece of cake compared to Polish military, in terms of the stupid things they can make you do.

[@AceOfBlackjack]

@@mareczek00713I once managed to use a stick to hipfire a maduesce

[@AceOfBlackjack]

I AM NOT MILITARY AND IT WAS WITH A FRIEND

[@thecowboy8474]

"And then they weren't happy with me because they ruined their machine gun." If that doesn't sum up 99% of management I don't know what will.

[@WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot3267]

5:16 Maybe this is a rare case of your command actually realizing that you knew your shit and what you were talking about, so they said "get hazard in here" so we don't have any problems.

[@Dorsidwarf]

wasnt he the unit small arms repairman despite being like 5 grades under the intended rank for that post or something? Might be why he was out with them.

[@DerpyTurtle0762]

Imagine going through and finding a belt of old Soviet made 12.7x108mm ammunition or better yet, a grunt on the range trying to figure out why his M2 won't feed.

[@JohnPartin515]

or why his gun exploded

[@theroyalbear9326]

Zach bru i was a mechanic and did handle alot of weapon maintenance. The shit that soldiers will put their gear and vehicle through is absolutely fucking amazing. Have taken of a tire using a 4.5m long steel signpost as leverage in order to take of the bolts to a wheel, Because the soldier in charge of this vehicle used a tool which i banned them from using because he "Wanted to make sure the wheel didnt fall of". He also noted quite calmly that the car wobbled a bit when driving. Because the rims were more crooked than my back was after getting the fucking tires of.

[@3adgamd3r]

What happened to the lizard that used the tool you told him not to?

[@ItsFourLokoFriday]

just like LSAT, citadel paint's white paint (Corax White) splits into two components, those being the forbidden milk and what looks like liquid lead.

[@qade2128]

Finally a refrence in this comment section I understand

[@7jum7]

I fucking hate citadel white paints, horrible to work with

[@kobeguay3151]

Had a 1SG chew me out because his troops decided put clp on the rounds of an M2A1 and I couldn't fix the catastrophic malfunction. Split down the receiver perpendicular to the rivots by the Cam screw.

[@Hellhound23691]

Holy fuck. Top should have been thankful the gunner still had all of his extremities...the gunner still had all his extremities, right?

[@kobeguay3151]

@@Hellhound23691 yeah he was fine they did a blood sweep and he was ok. The unit got it in their heads that if a weapon malfunctions its be we (the 91Fs) didn't service it properly. The thing whole Kefluffle got kicked up all the way to the brigade. They had a whole meeting about it, in the end no one got in trouble. And apparently no one leaned any lesson cause the same unit had the same thing happen again 5 months later. That time they stuck the blame on "bad ammo batch".

[@Hellhound23691]

@@kobeguay3151 Can't fix terminal retardation. Piss poor leadership.

[@PlebNC]

Huh, the Mk19 is apparently the weapon the Auto Grenade Launcher in Fallout 76 is based on. Except it's inexplicably carried like a minigun.

[@callsignapollo_]

Im suprised there hasnt been an M2 modified for use as a heavy weapon in fallout yet tbh

[@thelore2755]

@@callsignapollo_ Then look no further for Fallout 76 also has that

[@AdomMekanica]

@@callsignapollo_ Fallout Tactics had it also.

[@MrPrussianjester]

Power armor son

[@killergames391]

And inexplicably you can carry both without power armor

[@Jrhoney]

LSA-T "Lubricant Small Arms with Teflon."

[@firehazardentertainment8381]

I'm like 75% sure you could use Crisco to clean an M2 Browning and it'd be fine.

[@userequaltoNull]

It would be fine, but it would go rancid eventually.

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

I mean, the US Air Force has bought and maintained aircraft like the MiG-17 and 29 for evaluation and aggressor training purposes.

[@PunkRaider]

Regardless of the industry or military, they will always be understaffed, overstretched, and piling work on people that have no need to be doing what they want you to do 🙃

[@scowler7200]

Can't wait to see admins used as cannon fodder when the big one hits.

[@violetsapphire952]

"Am I actually autistic? Uh... yes." Woo I've got something in common with my favourite internet gun nerd!

[@ThatPCGamingNoob]

Had to have been the CLP that caught fire, 10w works perfectly fine on weapons that get way hotter than a Mk19

[@evanwcahill4439]

"Donkey jizz" not a good thing to hear while eating a cold grill cheese

[@BungSpoot]

You love it tho

[@turtislscezchuan2507]

You deserve it for eating a cold grilled cheese, degenerate

[@imadequate3376]

Low temperature LSA-T is just LSA You can buy it from surplus sites. LSA is good stuff. The only time I use CLP is for the P. It's what I hose my guns I'm not shooting for awhile in before putting them away. To be entirely honest if I was in the military and there was a pile of DShK parts chilling that had no paperwork on them I'd be pulling a "one piece at a time" Johnny Cash move with that sucker.

[@v4nd3l4yhomeboi5]

You talking about LSAT reminded about something my brother used to maintain his Bradley called, “The Forbidden Jelly”. All I remember is that it was some purple shit that was EXTREMELY toxic.

[@popuptarget7386]

Mk19s were new when I was in so never saw one. Did get an M2 that tankers has split the trunnion on.

[@SoranoGuardias]

Interesting as the MK19 predates the moon landing.

[@popuptarget7386]

@@SoranoGuardias wasn't adopted by the Army till 1983. Still wasn't part of the small arms repairer course at Aberdeen in 1986. I should have been a bit more accurate and not said it was "new",

[@blairdonnachie2092]

I didn't know bad dragon sold military lube

[@whiskeytango9040]

Man, someone was trying to bring back as DShK and zach ruined that plan.

[@SoranoGuardias]

"Uhhhhh I've seen 'documentaries'". Lol

[@TheCrimsonFoxx]

to be fair we'll be using m2 brownings by the time we colonize mars, you can't defeat the deuce

[@JoeyVSupreme]

>used motor oil for MG Lube >gets mad when there’s negative consequences to their actions Sounds like a staff NCO tbh

[@TheHellSpawn000]

In chechnya a DShK 12.7 was the worst thing that you could come across. chechen would lay an ambush with 2 DShK and a ZU-23 AD, i heard stories of people getting ambushed in the forests and they said it would be dead silent and then sound like a swarm of bees around you, then before you knew it you saw tree trunks exploding around you after they got hit by 12.7MM and 23X152MM, all you could do was hit the ground and wait till they ran out of ammunition or wait till their barrels overheated if there wasn't a Kamov in the area. They also really liked to put them in buildings and hunting blinds in the beginning.

[@domination1985]

The fat electrician did a great vid on both of them

[@Chiefshadow4]

I use motor oil for all my guns. I'm not wasting extra money on tiny ass oil containers.

[@amazingcmanps4gamer941]

Am I the only one that was distracted by him taking out the mailbox after making the first delivery?

[@BusterBuizel]

Question Zach: how many guns *can* you lube with just motor oil?

[@offcenterprofilepicture6274]

yes

[@pretzelbomb6105]

All of them. Of course, it works better in some and not at all in others.

[@TRPilot06YT]

Iam still amazed that a Mk19 managed to fire

[@Clocky4847]

chat seems to be very focused on the donkey spunk comment lol.

[@dragonllig790]

I just imagine Zach walking into the shed from “hot fuz”

[@Osean_Kitty]

oh yay! more Zach stories!

[@allenwatkins7032]

Finally a good snow runner channel

[@slayterpurvis1622]

The truck at the intro is an LVS, they suck, so they added an extra axle and better hydraulics…introducing the LVSR

[@madladpallydad9516]

I also don't like the Mk19 but for a different reason. Mainly because our arms room guy was a fucking idiot who didn't maintain things above operator level (had issues with .50s and 249s for the same reason). So every time it was fired, the damn thing would lock up and either have a failure to feed, failure to eject, or failure to fire at random between every 3-8 rounds.

[@aviatorengineer3491]

Ooh, Zach plays Snowrunner? Nice, I could watch plenty of that.

[@skiytles807]

Friggin sweet

[@zigenstern]

HOLY SHIT, now that iI know you play snowrunners, I can never stop watching

[@TheEvilFoxy]

It's so odd to see SnowRunner in Freedom-Units.

[@somadrummond6256]

I work at a big box hardware store in the plumbing department. I'll never not call plumbers putty monkey shit now

[@lovableastro]

Saved. Jesus the mk19 story *edit wrong mk number

[@Gugernoot]

Lsa sounds like the bike chain lube I have.

[@FelixUmbra]

I use fullSynth 5w30 to oil my Aeroprecision M5 Clean it, Oil it. Don't drown it and it runs just fine.

[@tinfoilhat3268]

"Documentaries"

[@Villainess_Jenn]

Hey Zach, what mods are you using with Snowrunner? I just got back into it because one of my gaming buddies wanted it for Christmas. Thanks man! Love your content. :)

[@nihtgengalastnamegoeshere7526]

That LSA looks like PVA glue to me. Bad thing to mix up...

[@jamesgordon7971]

15-40 is AMAZING in a 50

[@bioemiliano]

If you put water into some machining lubricant it also looks like jizz. The lathe guy at our work does this and we call it his milk "la leche del tornero"

[@burntmonky]

Leave it up to the government to screw up something as awesome as an automatic grenade launcher. Always feel like the MAs and GMs of the armories should get alteast one Sparta chest kick a month

[@pretzelbomb6105]

To be fair, the manual clearly states not to use CLP on it because it will catch fire. The operator used CLP on it and it caught fire.

[@JB-ls5pq]

Currency in Afghanistan i think (might have been something else in the middle East) was how many dushkas does this cost. 12 for a krinkov for example (krink was a status symbol). or many many ak" s for 1 dshka

[@matejkubala7221]

What game is it? The truck he is driving is a military Tatra truck, funny I saw this exact truck unloading something at a train station few days back, when I was going to my part time job.

[@richardmillhousenixon]

It's in the description...

[@humanoidwolf]

@zach hazard are psl scope from belomo accurate now

[@Crusader_Lite]

Heavy weapons story time when

[@foxhounds6326]

Just for scenario sake, what if your weapon fell out of a truck and the only real damage was on the serial number, would that have to get send that out?

[@HekateMGO]

Of course the M2 works well if you just dump motor oil on it, its fucking indestructible.

[@yak3868]

So dont give your MK-19 the CL(a)P, got it

[@tristenkelley357]

Love this

[@Nelseru]

RECORDING VOLUME TOO LOW

[@jamiepittman8580]

What truck is that btw?

[@jamesbuckner4791]

Is the Hemet a mod or pack

[@YeensWrath]

Would you say that using the MK19 as a 'CROW' turret would be more enjoyable? And I just love the irony of ''Can you fix my melted MK19?''. Oh sure! Let me heat up my forge real quick! Dumbass.. 😂

[@turtislscezchuan2507]

Haha Russian 50. Cal goes DShKDShKDShKDShK

[@frankieM_]

"why cant you fix this mass of burnt and warped metal?" Brother, I need you to understand that not even Jesus himself can bring this thing back from the dead, it is fucked

[@funnygamer678]

israel has a small one that is mpre fun to carry,.. split with 4 guys its not too bad

[@baz5042]

Rather have the MK-19 than than one of the shitty Russian grenade launchers.

[@danielquick7541]

I hated the Mk. 19. Ma Deuce is so much better.

[@RayVonLovely]

el burro show

[@Otterdisappointment]

I despise the MK19 because I hate grenade launchers

[@MrJinxmaster1]

Why does every single story involve "I got mad and had to be held back from beating the guy up" Larp much?

[@damianosplay9457]

pirated game hell yeah, I don;t pay for most I played too