Any you were there?
I’m sure the NCOs, after action, would say, “Aw shucks, you got me. Some of them rifles were damn dirty, on my watch. Just please take these stripes away.”
The NCOs that were there said they had weapons problems.
The Army believed them. The Army is also shitcanning direct impingement. Correlation or causation, I don't know, but it is what it is.