[HorseSoldier]

I was in theater when they announced that Magpul PMags were now banned, along with anything else that wasn't USGI. This was kind of a pain for me, since all I was using were my PMags I either bought or got issued to me when I was SOF support and a Surefire 60 rounder. A lot of guys in my unit (probably about half the NCOs and E-4s who'd been around a little while) were in the same boat, to one extent or another, and we just kind of ignored it.

We got away with that while the "ban" was in effect by virtue of being about as remote from flagpoles as you could get in A'stan and still be affiliated with Big Army. It would not surprise me at all if the flew in extra sergeants major to BAF and KAF to stand outside DFACs and MWR computer/phone centers to check people for non-issue mags.

I say ban in quotes because apparently whoever announced it got slapped down after a couple weeks and it went away. It was kind of a dumb idea, since all sorts of conventional and cool kid units have purchasing mags with unit funds for a while now and some of the banned magazines (at least PMags) have a NSN assigned to them and can be ordered through the system.

Edit to Add: The above mentioned ban is the official, Big Army one. No representation is made about any unit-level regulation invention, (mis)interpretation, etc., that individuals may be subject to. Being old enough to remember the days before universal reflective belt use, nothing can really surprise me anymore along those lines.