Obviously your 240's and 249's are going to be your highest casualty producers available to a typical infantry platoon, and while it is advised to kick off ambushes with your highest casualty producing weapons (being that speed, surprise and violence of action are going to be unmatched by anything else) such weapons could range from anything to 40mm's to claymores set in during a deliberate ambush.
I'm gonna feel like a sh*tbag for not being able to pull a Ranger handbook open right now, but it may very well be missing in the latest version. I think the one referenced by the gentlemen who imparted this wisdom to me would've been the 2006 edition. Either way, it's one of those things accepted as common knowledge that's enforced as an SOP at the unit level. There's a million ways to skin a cat, but there's a solid case that you don't start skinning said cat with a weapon who's hallmark features include failures to fire on the first round/burst, the 'element of surprise' is supposed to apply to the enemy, not the look on your face when you realize that your mg's just shit the bed.
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