Something that always struck me odd,....

[Panther Al]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Pistols in the armoury!? :O
Our entire Battalion had a grand total of just 9 pistols, all 9mmP's which I never even got to lay eyes on!
We did have a variety of weaponry scattered through the 8(?) armouries though:
L1A1 SLRs, M16A1s, F1 SMGs, M79s, M203s, M60's, a couple of .303 Brens, Martini Henry rifles (100+ years old), Mark 4 SMLEs, and, so I've been led to believe, a couple of .55 Boys AT rifles. Now that's something I'd like as a sidearm! :P

Heh, only four? We had more M9 pistols in our armoury than Rifles - one of the (dis)advantages of being an armoured cav unit I guess. Of course, we always got a laugh when Regiment would do a arms room inventory and count up one extra M2 HMG. They would freak, yell, and scream, until we point out that the extra M2 was a personally owned M2 being stored in the arms room. Then they would freak, yell, and scream, about the very idea of a Spec having the balls (And the money) to own one.