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Originally Posted by Raellus
From that fairly recent photo of the crewman in Iraq, is it possible that the M231s are standard/semi-official issue personal defense weapons for some Brad crews? Maybe just the older ones that used to have the firing ports before they were uparmored? Back in the '70s and '80s, U.S. AFV crewmen used to be issued M3 Grease Guns. The M231 would be somewhat of a step up, IMO.
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My fathers NG tanker unit in the 1990's still had M3A1 grease guns. Along with M1911A1 pistols, Winchester 1200 trench guns and M16a1's. A couple years ago my brother in law was a commander for a supply unit that that was now at where my father's old tank unit was, and he told me they still had the trench guns and M16A1's. I have to ask him if they still had the grease guns. So even if the regular army might not have the M231's a NG unit might.