Agree !!!
“The Navy still has piles of M-14s. That’s all I ever shot. The boarding parties use M-4s but for ship and pier watches it’s M-14s.”
Back in the Vietnam era my destroyer had 03A3 Springfields, Thompson .45 submachine guns (commercial type, blued, nicely machined), BAR’s,Johnson semi-automatic rifles that I have never seen since, and Garands. No AR-15’s, Our ammo was in wooden cases, some dated 1944.
Nice to know they still lag by 40 years.