Yup! And that was just an infantry company...
An armor company with loads of pistols, both Berettas and M-1911A1s as well as a dozen S&W .38, M-3 and M-3A1 submachine guns, M-16A1s, even a handful of M-177 carbines...both does that date me!!!! I could never figure out why the armory had a pair of M-67 90mm recoilless rifles.
Our forward ammo point was even more weird. 105mm ammo in every type and variety, APDS, APDSDU, APDSFSDU, HEAT, HEP, Beehive and WP (the only place I've ever seen 105mm tank WP!). Metal and plastic AT mines, bouncing bettys, claymores, toe poppers, every hand grenade that the US had in service for the last 20 years...and then the weird stuff; all kinds of nifty demo stuff to destroy the ole kaserne...55 gallon drums lined with incendary mixture to destroy that nasty ole paper, cutting charges, C4 by the pallet load....AND WE NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO USE ANY OF THE GOOD STUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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