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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
Yup! And that was just an infantry company...
An armor company with loads of pistols, both Berettas and M-1911A1s as well as a dozen S&W .38, M-3 and M-3A1 submachine guns, M-16A1s, even a handful of M-177 carbines...both does that date me!!!! I could never figure out why the armory had a pair of M-67 90mm recoilless rifles.
Our forward ammo point was even more weird. 105mm ammo in every type and variety, APDS, APDSDU, APDSFSDU, HEAT, HEP, Beehive and WP (the only place I've ever seen 105mm tank WP!). Metal and plastic AT mines, bouncing bettys, claymores, toe poppers, every hand grenade that the US had in service for the last 20 years...and then the weird stuff; all kinds of nifty demo stuff to destroy the ole kaserne...55 gallon drums lined with incendary mixture to destroy that nasty ole paper, cutting charges, C4 by the pallet load....AND WE NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO USE ANY OF THE GOOD STUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Was this when the Regiment still had the original M1 or had they already been upgrade to M1A1s?
Interesting thing when I was in basic, I had got in argument with MS NG who would have swore their M177s at the time were M4 that were still in development stage. I bet if he was still in he would notice the difference now.
You know it like the old web bearing equipment with pistol belt, and either Y or H yoke with attachments. There was so much of it made, and even in the surplus system it took years for the MOLLE system to get authorized and then into the system. Almost 20 years from when it was first started to be introduced to units for testing.
Yeah we had mixture of M1911A1s and the Berrettas.
Well that were those recoilless rifles were misplaced. Knowing how the Military never gets rid of anything, I am sure their was ammo stored somewhere in Western Europe they could get ammo for it.