ROADBLOCK
HEAVY MACHINE GUNNER

FILE NAME: Marvin F. Hinton
PRIMARY MILITARY SPECIALTY: Infantry Heavy Weapons
SECONDARY MILITARY SPECIALTY: Cook
BIRTHPLACE: Biloxi, MS
GRADE: E-5

Roadblock's dream was to be a gourmet chef. He was working as a bouncer to earn money to attend the Escoffler School in France when an army recruiter convinced him that the army could train him to be a chef. Roadblock joined but found army menus and preparation techniques too appalling. Transferred to the infantry. Qualified expert: M-2 Browning .50 cal. heavy machine gun, all Warsaw Pack heavy MG's, M-16, M1911A1 auto pistol.

A .50 cal. Browning weighs 84 pounds. Add fifty pounds for the ammo - that's about 134 pounds of steel generating 2930 f.p.s. in muzzle velocity at a cyclic rate of 550 r.p.m. Anybody who can handle that doesn't need a machine gun to keep me away!

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