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Scary until you found the path between the guns.

If you are talking about the night live fire course in basic training at Fort Dix NJ in early 1970. I could have stood up and done the Hokey Pokey dance and still be typing this today. I stood in formation waiting for my turn to eat dirt and noticed the M60 mounts and where the tracers were flying.

It wasn't scary at all during basic at Ft Jackson. I looked up at the tracers and they were almost 10 feet above.

In Afghanistan and Iraq, it was much scarier, since those rounds were coming at us instead of all going overhead.

You almost always knew whose rounds were flying, since we use red tracers and they almost always use green tracers where we were fighting

Yes, Fort Knox in winter clothing. My dad had a man actually hit beside him when he did it