Looks like you found a rear sight somewhere.
Now get a red dot for it. They are great at normal carbine range shooting.
Oh, and you did not buy an AR15, you bought “your first AR15”.
Spot on! They're like potato chips: you can't have just one!
This is one of mine, although I have a green dot scope and a bipod on mine:
Yep. I didn't feel like researching optics so I bought an obscenely overpriced Magpul flip-up sight just to have something on the rifle.