Loader Issue

Got a major issue and I am having a hard time diverging reality from the game. Why the hell do BARs, Bren guns and Japanese light machine guns have loaders? When I was in the army I carried a M249 squad automatic machine gun. So did everyone in my squad actually because we had a surplus in the armory and everyone wants more firepower. Its lightweight, 22 pounds fully loaded with a box of 200 belted rounds. We carried 6 boxes of ammo when loaded up plus our normal gear. It was not by any means a crew served weapon. One dude carries it and its ammo and you can easily shoulder fire it and treat it like a standard rifle. I also carried a Javelin back when they were new and cool(2nd unit to get them) and m203 on my m16a2 along with those rounds. I did have a KATUSA carrying an extra missile for me, but he also carried a m203 on his M16a2 and those rounds, and guess what? When we were fired at, we both shot back.

I say this because now I own a Type 99 Nambu Light machine gun(demiled 🙁 ) that my grandfather captured in Guadal canal. Its a one man weapon. It has a 30 round magazine and weighs 22 pounds just like a SAW. Also just like the SAW, its a shoulder fired weapon, and you can literally mount a bayonet on it(which I think I might do on my models). The gunner carries and loads his own ammo. Another dude might get detailed to carry some extra magazines but it was not a crew served weapon. There were three guys in the fighting position that my grandfather took out, one NCO with a pistol and a saber(not a katana), another dude with an Arisaka rifle, and the dude running the 99,(he was awarded for this and got a non-battlefield commission and went to flight school, and ask me how I know the exact weapons each person was carrying lol). He somehow managed to get into hand to hand and still won and took some hits from the saber as well just to complete the story. Pretty good for a marine aircraft mechanic. The 99 failed because someone shot the magazine and jammed it and the gunner couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t feeding before he was assualted. There’s also a hole in the bipod and in the wood stock.

To my point though, there is zero reason to add the tax of a loader who cant do anything on such light weapons. I see the use on a crew served weapon like a medium machine gun or a medium mortar. Light weapons like light machine guns(German MG might be a different story since its more of a medium gun and is belt fed and not easily reloaded like magazine fed weapons) light mortars, your bazooka and AT teams, should all be allowed to let their loaders fire their rifles. Its what happens in real life and isn’t game changing except that in our extremely gamey system it streamlines things and does away with the loader tax of a useless dude in a squad. Add a bit more realism to the game which is important since this is a historical war game.