As a 2111, I was pretty familiar with the 106 RR but when I ended up serving my WESTPAC tour on Okinawa, I gained even more knowledge of this great infantry support weapon when I ended up teaching it’s maintenance to 2111 want to be’s sent to Okinawa from their unit’s in Viet Nam. Most of those guys probably didn’t absorb much about the weapons we were training them on since this was like an R&R for them.
And if anybody is confused about the basic 106 RR, the Ontos will really send them into a tail spin. One heck of a weapon!
Dan Stombaugh
1968-1976 Active Duty (S/Sgt)
1976-1980 Active Reserve (Gy/Sgt)
I was doing Public Relations in 1962-63 after two years as an 0311 and one of my area assignments was Ontos at Camp Horno. I was doing a story on them and the idea came up of shooting a photo of one of them firing all six rifles at once. Well they were going to a range and it grew to 6 Ontos firing all six rifles at once. We went out about sunset and shot the photo of them on the firing line at a partial exposure and left the camera in position. Then with a long cable release on the 4×5 camera on a tripod we waited until dark and had all six fire at once. Got a great picture of them firing. I heard later we caused a a few phone calls to the base. I guess we broke windows as far away as San Clemente.