M3 Greasegun and M1911 in service.

[TomSudz]

We had to fam fire M-79's at Benning in the 80's. In 2005-06 the Marines had M-79's in the towers on the base perimeter. Our (PANG) kids had no idea what they were and the Marines were surprised when some of us "old" doggies knew what they were- and even knew how to use them. I never spent a minute in a tower, but you never pass up a chance to shoot something cool.

There were also some m-60's on top of vehicles even though they were replaced by the M-240. It seems like infantry units had priority for "new" weapons, then the other combat arms, then everybody else. The units that would be considered "rear eschelon" had the old stuff like the 60's.

[joem]

US 1917 enfield for guard duty 1966 at boot camp in Mississippi. No ammo, it was pristine. Wish I could have kept it

[Michael Tompkins]

As an MP at Ray Barracks in the FRG, I remember reading the desk blotter about an incident involving an E-5 squad leader in 1/36 Inf dressing as a Soviet soldier complete with battle tunic, helmet and AK-47 drawn from the arms room (a lot of units had soviet weapons in their arms room for familiarization) and attempted to "scare" the new troop pulling guard duty at the motorpool. Poor troop had no ammo and it scared the crap out of him. E-5 got busted for pulling his prank.

[p246]

US 1917 enfield for guard duty 1966 at boot camp in Mississippi. No ammo, it was pristine. Wish I could have kept it

Now except for no ammo that I find to be very cool.

[holdover]

in '68-69 in Nam, the Arvin and PF had M2 carbines, Thompsons, M1s and grease guns. Got to fire them all what a hoot, I believe some of our tankers still had the grease gun. When I moved to a farm in VA in 1975 I met a class 3 dealer that I allowed to come to the farm and shoot all the rock and roll guns, MG34s and 42s and every other full auto arm there was she would come with a U-haul trailer full of ammo, talk about being in hog heaven. Those of you who go to the VA gun shows and know Joan should ask her about the shooting