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M16A1 RIFLE COMIC, 1968
retronaut ^ | 7 10 12

Posted on 07/10/2012 6:08:51 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch

“US Army Preventive Maintenance Manual for the M16A1 Rifle, published by PS Magazine in a comic book form. The idea was that young, uneducated soldiers were more likely to read comics than boring military manuals. This one was illustrated by the prominent comic artist Will Eisner.”


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1 posted on 07/10/2012 6:08:56 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
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To: InvisibleChurch

“Maybe you got a bad round....Imperialist!”


2 posted on 07/10/2012 6:13:25 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: InvisibleChurch

I’ve got one of those buried downstairs somewhere.


3 posted on 07/10/2012 6:14:14 PM PDT by dljordan ("Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.")
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To: InvisibleChurch

I can field strip and assemble the M-16 blind folded. ;-)


4 posted on 07/10/2012 6:17:39 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: dljordan

Which .. the gun, the gal or the book ?


5 posted on 07/10/2012 6:18:21 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: InvisibleChurch
Lots of those problems went away when they changed powder types to what Gene Stoner recommended. The Army hated Gen. LeMay's plastic rifle, and tried to undermine it.

It has done well over the years. I don't have to have eyes to be able to strip one and put it back together.

Not as well as the AK, but Kalashnikov was a special designer, in the catagory of John Moses Browning.

/johnny

6 posted on 07/10/2012 6:18:49 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Red Steel

I can do it with my AR, but don’t need to. Since I installed the Osprey Defense piston system it runs 5000 rounds without needin’g cleaning, and then it’s mostly carb cleaner to the piston cup and piston, with a CLP wipe down of the bolt and carrier then back into action!


7 posted on 07/10/2012 6:22:36 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Red Steel
I can field strip and assemble the M-16 blind folded. ;-)

I can field strip a blind fold with an M-16 too...heheheheheheeeeeeee...No assembly required.

8 posted on 07/10/2012 6:27:42 PM PDT by IrishPennant (Are you behind a "Blade of Grass?")
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To: Red Steel
I can field strip and assemble the M-16 blind folded. ;-)

That was a requirement to pass boot camp in '74. I remember it was a timed test.

9 posted on 07/10/2012 6:30:56 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
The correct answer for 'what to do in a jam' is throw it down and grab a more reliable weapon like an AK47 from some dead haji.

Two jams requiring remedial action, within minutes of each other, while pinned down and cutoff in the street. Just as bad, CONSISTENTLY having to shoot the same s4!th3@ds several times. Damn I hate the POS M16 and 5.56 aka varmint ammo.

10 posted on 07/10/2012 6:31:07 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (Why do cops have more lenient ROEs when facing us than troops in combat facing suicidal islamists?)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Does anyone remember the comic books put out by the Navy and given away at the Post Office? I use to wait for every issue. They were a bit like “Classic Comics” in that they taught real history in an easy to read format.

Very entertaining and they would even admit mistakes the Navy had made over the years.


11 posted on 07/10/2012 6:31:31 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: JRandomFreeper

Mikhail Kalashnikov is still alive and kicking. The guy is 92, I think.


12 posted on 07/10/2012 6:34:57 PM PDT by Copenhagen Smile (Ask me no questions, I"ll tell you no lies)
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To: Red Steel
I can field strip and assemble the M-16 blind folded. ;-)

Why would you need to blind-fold an M16?

13 posted on 07/10/2012 6:37:37 PM PDT by umgud (No Rats, No Rino's)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Interesting post- thanks!


14 posted on 07/10/2012 6:40:31 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: GenXteacher
you're welcome

: )

15 posted on 07/10/2012 6:47:08 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch ( if you love, you will not condemn, and if you condemn, you cannot love)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Comparing Kalashnikov to John M. Browning is ridiculous. Kalashnikov didn’t invent anything. The soviets ripped off Hugo Schmeisser’s design of the MP43(Schmeisser was held prisoner in the same factory where Kalashnikov worked after the war) and gave the credit to a wrench monkey named Kalashnikov for propaganda purposes. Flame away, but it’s true, and you can’t change the truth.


16 posted on 07/10/2012 6:48:21 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: umgud

I like to see M-16s wearing bandannas.


17 posted on 07/10/2012 6:50:42 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel
I can field strip and assemble the M-16 blind folded. ;-)

Why would you need to blind-fold an M16?

18 posted on 07/10/2012 6:51:11 PM PDT by umgud (No Rats, No Rino's)
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To: knarf

“Which .. the gun, the gal or the book ?”

Not the Gal.


19 posted on 07/10/2012 6:53:28 PM PDT by dljordan ("Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.")
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To: InvisibleChurch

Momma warned me about girls that wanted me to use my forward assist.


20 posted on 07/10/2012 6:55:11 PM PDT by AZ .44 MAG (If there were three candidates - Romney, Øbama, and Satan, Øbama would come in third.)
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