[Hummer70]

When I cranked up on the M16A1 test at the Proving Ground we generated about 2/3rds of a 30 gal trash can full of brass during initial function firing of all the rifles we received. On the initial firing we had to visually hand inspect every case for signs of case failure so three of the gun crew and myself sat down and start looking at every fired case and as luck would have it with three cases left in the bottom of the barrel I pulled them out and found a L spit but there was no drama on that one.

Ammo surveilance used to be handled by the Ammo Surveilance folks and they had pros who did nothing in the world wide ammo depots but go in and open cases and inspect for deterriorated ammo.

They tried to recruit me as I wanted nothing to do with ammo I couldn't shoot haha.