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Update: I spoke with a fellow today who told me that his tanker unit still had greaseguns as issue weapons in 1984, when he got out.
Anybody out there got a later in service date?
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A buddy of mine said his Michigan National Guard Armor unit had them until the mid '90s. He said they regularly qualified with them up until the last couple years that they had them. They'd finally turned in their 1911's a couple of years before they got rid of the Grease Guns and after they turned in the 1911's they no longer received any new .45 ACP ammo. Once the ammo supply got tight they stopped qualifying with the Grease Guns.
He really liked the M3A1 and thought it was a better tanker weapon then the M4. (He said their M4's were rebuilt from uneeded Bradley firing port weapons, but I have no idea if that's true)