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My unit didn't have any M16A1's when I got there in early '88. We only had M3A1's and M1911A1's to go with the M60A3(TTS) we were getting ready to send off to Turkey.
All of our rifles were M16A2's. We got them the same day the M1(IP) showed up.
Mine, or rather the one assigned to my tank, was a Colt.
I replicated it in semi from an 80% lower.
It's interesting that we had a mix of Colts and M16A1 lowers made into A2's from kits. I remember the gray lower Hydramatic M16A2 that went with A-22.
Colt only held the contract to make them for two years, thanks to the UAW. FN wasn't having labor issues, so they got the contract they still hold to this day.
This one is USAF issue at MacDill in 2007. Thanks to the unnamed Airman who let us take a pic of the logo. I am not sure if it looks gray because of the light or if it actually was gray. My memory says it was black.
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