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Originally Posted by HorseSoldier
When I was in the Nat'l Guard in the early 90s for a while we still had M16A1s fitted with A2 handguards (and maybe buttstocks, can't recall). Eventually replaced with remanufactured A1s converted to A2s with a new upper on an A1 lower with new trigger group and and "auto" ground off and overstamped with "burst." In the Twilight War timeline both those formats would likely be common on the battlefield.
(And both those set ups were quite a bit less off the wall than some on the mixmaster carbines I saw on occasions I worked with USAF units 2004-2008. )
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When I did my second AIT in the early 90s (to change to 11B from 11C), our M16s were a mishmash of A1 and A2 parts, meaning some of us had anything from A1s with A2 handguards to A1 bodies with A2 internal parts. Mine was an A1 with A2 handguards, an A2 stock, and an A2 pistol grip.