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Originally Posted by Abbott Shaull
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.
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When the Deuce was converting from M-60A3 to IPM-1s, and even after the conversion, we still had a lot of the 105mm specialty ammo on hand (M-1 was supposed to fire only sabot and heat).
Right before we shipped the M-60A3s back to Mannheim, we fired our last gunnery with them and the higher ups in their infinite wisdom, released a lot of 105mm APDS warshots for the gunnery. According to Range Control, we actually shot better scores than the Canadian Cup team! It seemed that the warshots were a hell of a lot more accurate than the TPDS that is normally fired, too bad the tubes had to be replaced afterwards....but that had to be done by the depot!