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IZinterrogator · August 30, 2008, 11:58 PM

The Army ordered 70,000 M9s in 2006. The Army is not expanding enough for all of them to be for new units, so some are being used to replace M9s currently in service. Also in 2006, the Marines ordered 7,500 M9A1s. At the same time, they decreed that most officers and senior NCOs would be packing M4s instead of M9s, so those are most likely being used to replace M9s currently in service.

Now if you just dropped a ton of money to replace your issue pistols, why would you change?

I fully expect to be issued an M9 until the day I retire.

August 30, 2008, 11:58 PM	#12
IZinterrogator Senior Member Join Date: November 8, 2004 Location: Prescott Valley, AZ Posts: 2,457	The Army ordered 70,000 M9s in 2006. The Army is not expanding enough for all of them to be for new units, so some are being used to replace M9s currently in service. Also in 2006, the Marines ordered 7,500 M9A1s. At the same time, they decreed that most officers and senior NCOs would be packing M4s instead of M9s, so those are most likely being used to replace M9s currently in service. Now if you just dropped a ton of money to replace your issue pistols, why would you change? I fully expect to be issued an M9 until the day I retire. __________________ "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” - Samuel Adams