User blog comment:Griever0311/Ask A Marine Part По-русски/@comment-1260687-20100322045620

@Codfan: I started out as an automatic rifleman (the real term for a "support gunner"), using an M249. After my first deployment, we lost a lot of our senior Marines and I was made a fire team leader, and I carried an M16A4 as my primary weapon. During my last deployment, I had a fire team, but I usually served as a turret gunner/vehicle commander in a security element. As to the second part of your question, I think I answered it in Part Deux. If memory serves me correctly, I think it was the next to last entry.