US Army issue weapons

[Abbott Shaull]

You can use the bayonet with the M16/M203 combo weapon, you just won't be able to use the 203 while you have the bayonet mounted. With that said, the old proverbial order to fix bayonets with the modern Platoon/Squad set up would mean as much as 1/4 to 1/6 of the force wouldn't have little more than a knife to bring to the fight. When I was the M7 only fitted to the M16s leaving the SAW and M60 gunners as well as those issued only pistol didn't have a weapon to fix the said bayonet too.

Interesting if they are close for the order to fix bayonets, the enemy that was a major concern were too close to use the M203 anyways for arming issues IIRC.