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To: Red Steel
I can field strip and assemble the M-16 blind folded. ;-)

That was a requirement to pass boot camp in '74. I remember it was a timed test.

9 posted on 07/10/2012 6:30:56 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.)
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To: 2111USMC; Squantos; Travis McGee
I can field strip and assemble the M-16 blind folded. ;-)

That was a requirement to pass boot camp in '74. I remember it was a timed test.

As it was for us in the Army, in Armor AIT, circa 1968.

Then I got to my first line assignment, where we learned to do it again. With a M1911A1 .45 pistol, an M3 greasegun, a M73 co-ax machinegun and an M60 MG, all taken down and all the parts in one pile.

That took a little longer....

46 posted on 07/11/2012 3:26:10 PM PDT by archy (I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
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To: 2111USMC; Squantos; Travis McGee
I can field strip and assemble the M-16 blind folded. ;-)

That was a requirement to pass boot camp in '74. I remember it was a timed test.

As it was for us in the Army, in Armor AIT, circa 1968.

Then I got to my first line assignment, where we learned to do it again. With a M1911A1 .45 pistol, an M3 greasegun, a M73 co-ax machinegun and an M60 MG, all taken down and all the parts in one pile.

That took a little longer....

47 posted on 07/11/2012 3:26:35 PM PDT by archy (I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
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To: 2111USMC; archy
M-16 had a serious problems, like never discharging when opportunity called for it.


48 posted on 07/11/2012 3:42:45 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (One out of three ain't good enough, Make November work.)
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