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**Aguila Blanca** · September 3, 2013, 10:51 PM

M14.

1966 - Fort Leonard Wood, MO

You're off on the switch to the M16. It may have begun to show up by when you said, but I never even laid eyes on an M16 until I arrived in South Vietnam in 1968. After Basic and AIT and before Vietnam, my stateside duty station issue weapon was the M1 Carbine.

September 3, 2013, 10:51 PM	#2
Aguila Blanca Staff Join Date: September 25, 2008 Location: CONUS Posts: 18,457	M14. 1966 - Fort Leonard Wood, MO You're off on the switch to the M16. It may have begun to show up by when you said, but I never even laid eyes on an M16 until I arrived in South Vietnam in 1968. After Basic and AIT and before Vietnam, my stateside duty station issue weapon was the M1 Carbine.