User blog comment:Griever0311/Ask A Marine: Hammerdown/@comment-1260687-20100426035442

@KillerKing17: It depends on the situation, obviously; there's no way you can generalize a single weapon as being the "best" to use - that's why we have more than one type of machine gun. The M240 series are fine weapons, but infantry squads usually aren't packing them unless they have a machine gun team attached.