Our entire battalion's supply of M60's was also worn out - we had a useless armourer. They were pulled from service and returned two days later as almost different weapons - all the worn bits and peices had been replaced by the armourer of the training unit were were with at the time.
This was however before we received the M16s (which had come from another unit which had received the AUG). We struggled through with them for about 3 years before all our L1A1s and M16s were also replaced withthe AUG, holding only a handful of the better M16's for M203 mounts.
I believe even those M16s are now gone, with the GL now munted directly on an AUG.
The L1A1's we had were as old, if not older than the M16s and even with our crappy armourer, still functioned perfectly.
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