M-16A1 official comic from 1968 :facepalm:

[NoDubJustYet]

http://www.retronaut.co/2012/07/m16a1-rifle-comic-1968/




I guess this is what you get when you have a bunch of uneducated draftees... Pretty interesting though.

[Obin Robinson]

This is a result of soldiers not being properly trained to begin with:

http://www.bobcat.ws/rifle.shtml

Washington, D.C., Monday, May 15, 1967
The subcommittee met at 10:15 a.m., in room 2216, Rayburn Building, Washington, D.C., Hon. Richard H. Ichord, Chairman of the subcommittee presiding. Other members are Hon. Speedy Long, of Louisiana, and the Hon. William Bray, of Indiana. The Chair inserted into the record the letter establishing and outlining the jurisdiction of this subcommittee:

But one of the young men did state that when the rifle first arrived that they had, I believe, a 25 percent incident of jamming, when the rifle first arrived in South Vietnam. He attributed the jamming to the failure of the military to provide them with proper cleaning equipment. He kept talking about not having a bore brush, that would get into the chamber mechanism in order to adequately clean the rifle.

There's a lot of other info on that site that has to do with the hearings on the M-16.

obin

[Elbows]

That's better than the information that they didn't have to clean them.

[Egilbe]

I remember those pamphlets when I was in. They had whole series of them separated by MOS specialties. Maintaining commo equipment, maintaining wheeled or tracked vehicles, maintaining engineer hand tools, maintaining rotor assemblies of UH-1, etc. They were pretty good, good enough for the common soldier. If you wanted to really get in-depth in your specialty, you could read the FM's or TM's, but anyone who has read them, know how horribly boring they are to read. They highlighted the most common problems and the corrective action that needed to be taken.

[Obin Robinson]

I remember those pamphlets when I was in. They had whole series of them separated by MOS specialties. Maintaining commo equipment, maintaining wheeled or tracked vehicles, maintaining engineer hand tools, maintaining rotor assemblies of UH-1, etc. They were pretty good, good enough for the common soldier. If you wanted to really get in-depth in your specialty, you could read the FM's or TM's, but anyone who has read them, know how horribly boring they are to read. They highlighted the most common problems and the corrective action that needed to be taken.

Ditto. I can back you up on that one. I am going through my required reading for advancement right now and these manuals are so damn dry and boring. I am 37 years old and I'd say that if they were in comic book form at least they would be entertaining. There's only so long you can read paragraphs of cryptic abbreviations and references before you simply lose interest or fall asleep.

obin

[DonL]

I work in a test lab where we're having to read automotive, military, aeronautic, etc specs all the time. Kinda funny, but if somebody walks by somebody else's desk, and they find the person asleep, we just give them a nudge awake and move on. Never any hard or guilty feelings on either side, we've all been there. "Hey, c'mon, man." "Huh? Oh, thanks." "No sweat."

[dubraycer36]

There's more out there but I need to clean my M4geries now.

[foxtrot762]

I know nothing about M16's so I'm having a hard time figuring out what's wrong with the ads. What am I missing?

[Egilbe]

I know nothing about M16's so I'm having a hard time figuring out what's wrong with the ads. What am I missing?

comic book format.

[foxtrot762]

comic book format.

That's it? I kinda like it. Reminds me of an old propaganda poster.

[Egilbe]

That's it? I kinda like it. Reminds me of an old propaganda poster.

It never bothered me, either. Like I said, it highlighted the most probable failure points and the preventative action needed.

[Triumph]

That's it? I kinda like it. Reminds me of an old propaganda poster.

i don't get the facepalm either. they still produce these for modern equipment. what's wrong with it? does it need to be an iphone app for it to be worth anything at all?