The British Army had the right idea for a long time.
Officers purchased their own pistols, out of a group selected by the Army as available for service. The pistol was their personal weapon, and it stayed with them when they left the service.
I have long thought a similar system would work well in the United States.
We also need to reinvigorate the custom of war trophies. Up until the first Gulf War, under Bush I, American servicemen could bring back captured weapons as war trophies. Bush I unilaterally ended this over two century tradition, one supposes, simply to fit the globalist agenda.
President Trump should reinstate it.
Agree on all points.....