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Posted: 4/12/2017 2:06:03 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/12/2017 5:17:01 PM EDT
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there is a God Garands for everyone..
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Posted: 4/12/2017 7:35:25 PM EDT
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Must be a sign. I was just thinking it's about time I buy a Garand.
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Posted: 4/12/2017 8:35:19 PM EDT
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Stay tuned, Men. I was just yakking with an old shipmate who served at Subic Bay, over in those Philippine Islands a while back. He told me he saw a lot of Garands in use there by local Police Forces, irregulars, and the like against insurgents and criminals. He said a lot of the Garands he saw there were "beat to pi**" from both lack of maintenance and the sky high humidity and ocean salt spray.
But, then again, our good folks at CMP really know how to re-hab, re-furbish, and re-make so-so ones as good as new--plus, with a pool of 86k, there's got to be some "hidden beauties" among the beasts. I gotta get my credit card carbide-coated when they release them! Nothing like walnut wood and iron! And the .30Cal M2 Ball--well, you can really be a "long distance runner" with that round--it packs plenty 'o punch. 
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Posted: 4/12/2017 10:30:28 PM EDT
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Cool...
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Posted: 4/13/2017 4:58:20 PM EDT
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Stay tuned, Men. I was just yakking with an old shipmate who served at Subic Bay, over in those Philippine Islands a while back. He told me he saw a lot of Garands in use there by local Police Forces, irregulars, and the like against insurgents and criminals. He said a lot of the Garands he saw there were "beat to pi**" from both lack of maintenance and the sky high humidity and ocean salt spray. But, then again, our good folks at CMP really know how to re-hab, re-furbish, and re-make so-so ones as good as new--plus, with a pool of 86k, there's got to be some "hidden beauties" among the beasts. I gotta get my credit card carbide-coated when they release them! Nothing like walnut wood and iron! And the .30Cal M2 Ball--well, you can really be a "long distance runner" with that round--it packs plenty 'o punch. http://www.range365.com/sites/range365.com/files/styles/large_1x_/public/letter.png?itok=oBNO9Uei 
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Posted: 4/13/2017 9:27:22 PM EDT
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Stay tuned, Men. I was just yakking with an old shipmate who served at Subic Bay, over in those Philippine Islands a while back. He told me he saw a lot of Garands in use there by local Police Forces, irregulars, and the like against insurgents and criminals. He said a lot of the Garands he saw there were "beat to pi**" from both lack of maintenance and the sky high humidity and ocean salt spray. But, then again, our good folks at CMP really know how to re-hab, re-furbish, and re-make so-so ones as good as new--plus, with a pool of 86k, there's got to be some "hidden beauties" among the beasts. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 2:29:10 PM EDT
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Now where are all the surplus 1911's? They should get rid of them to make room for all the incoming M9's they're about to moth ball.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 1:25:41 AM EDT
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Now where are all the surplus 1911's? They should get rid of them to make room for all the incoming M9's they're about to moth ball. And I'll believe the CMP gets those Garands when I see it. |
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Posted: 5/8/2017 2:54:11 PM EDT
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It would be interesting to learn their average condition. An article stated they had been used hard and stored in an aircraft hanger a couple decades.
Hope they do get them! |
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Posted: 5/8/2017 7:38:49 PM EDT
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I have been thinking of getting one for about 10 years now.
When I was in the Ohio National Guard that is what we carried when i first got in. We had trained in boot camp with the M14 and the M16 and came back from Ft. Lewis Wash only to find that we carry an M1. |
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Posted: 5/11/2017 7:33:26 AM EDT
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Hey there, Old Soldier!
Mid 1960s at Fort Lewis we only saw the M14. 101st at Campbell had the XM16E1 rifles we all coveted while we trainees were lugging the M14. Students at Fort Benning were using the M14 into late 1968. A year later is was all M16. OHARNG moved directly from the M1 to M16 in the early 1970s and skipped the M14. I some USAR units got the M14 back with the USAR had combat units but ARNG use is unknown to me. OHARNG carried the M1 during the civil unrest in 1970. -- Chuck |
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