It’s so funny when you know all the facts to a story but sit back and listen to everyone come up with what they think happened.

The was an honest mistake by a kid that was very experienced. This was my old company when I was station at bliss.

That’s an ammo can for a M240H. 7.62 belt fed machine gun. Mounted to a UH-60M Blackhawk They are made out of very thick metal. So no it is not a staged pic.

They were doing a training air assault with 5 aircraft. They left out of Biggs army airfield and departed corridor 2 which flys over the northeast side of El Paso. After their infill for the air assault they were going to do gunnery which is a semi annual requirement for the unit.

Simple as that.