The AR 15 in Afghanistan

[dZ]

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20011212/wl/imdf12122001062849a.html
A member of a U.S. Marines reconnaissance team slings his M16 rifle over his shoulder as he returns to Camp Rhino in southern Afghanistan December 12, 2001, following their mission near Kandahar. The Marines are tasked with interdicting avenues of escape for al-Qaida and Taliban enemy forces. REUTERS/Pool/Dave Martin


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Marine Corporal Lucas Moeller (L) of Long Island, New York, tries to clean the mud off his M16 rifle as PFC Chris Cassa of Westford, Mass., eats an MRE (Meal Ready to Eat) at the Kandahar International Airport in southern Afghanistan, December 17, 2001. A heavy rain fell on the Marines of the 26th Marines Expeditionary Unit overnight, making life in the fighting holes a mess. The Marines are tasked with providing security around the airport that U.S. forces took control of last Friday. REUTERS/Dave Martin-POOL


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A Marine holds his M-16 rifle during religious services performed by U.S. Navy Chaplain James West (C) at Camp Rhino in southern Afghanistan, December 9, 2001. "This is a grim business. We live with death so far removed in the States. When you see it up close and personal, it's a different issue." West said following the service. REUTERS/POOL/Dave Martin


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U.S. Marine Cpl. Juan Valdez of Elizabeth, N.J., uses compressed air to clean dust from the exterior of his M-16 rifle at Camp Rhino in southern Afghanistan on December 8, 2001. The Marines are part of Task Force 58 on station in Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. (Pool/Reuters)


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A U.S. Marine honor guard fire their rifles in salute to the fallen Afghan warrior, background, during his burial December 8, 2001 at Camp Rhino, southern Afghanistan. The unnamed warrior was killed by friendly fire during a B-52 raid on Monday that also killed three Americans and six other Afghan anti-Taliban warriors. REUTERS/POOL/Earnie Grafton

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A U.S. Marine from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, from Camp Pendleton, California, holds his M16A2 rifle with a grenade launcher attached as he prepares to go on patrol outside Camp Rhino in southern Afghanistan, December 6, 2001. The Marine task force is operating in southern Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. REUTERS/POOL//Dave Martin

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U.S. Marines from the 15th MEU (Marine Expeditionary Unit) hold their rifles as they huddle together and listen to a briefing at the Marine operating base in southern Afghanistan Dec. 3, 2001. The Marines have greatly expanded their military capabilities on this base are are carrying out forward mobile missions. (AP Photo/Jim Hollander, Pool)

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U.S. Marine Cpl. Esteban Medina inspects his M-203 rifle while waiting with the rest of Battalion Landing Team 14 to board the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Station San Diego enroute to the Arabian Sea on November 30, 2001. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Friday rejected any negotiated surrender of the besieged Afghan Taliban stronghold of Kandahar in exchange for amnesty for Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. REUTERS/Fred Greaves

 

[STLRN]

One small correction DZ, there are no AR15 in the Marine Corps. All we have are M16A2s and M4A1s

 

[C.R.Sam]

I doubt if any military uses the AR-15.

Sam

 

[dZ]

you say tomato...

 

[STLRN]

DZ
No not really, there are still rifles in the US inventory that say AR15 on them, none of them in use with the Marine Corps.

 

[Jeff White]

Actually there are a lot of M16A1s in the Army reserve components that started out life as Colt AR15s. Of course they have all been rebuilt sometime in the 60's as M16A1s and they are stamped as such. I have probably 50 of them in the vault at the armory. But the receivers are still commercially marked, just as Colts produeced them in the early 60s.

Jeff

 

[Jake 98c/11b]

We have M16A2s here in Bosnia that are marked AR-15. I would be suprised to hear that the Marines don't have some that are marked the same way.

 

[STLRN]

Jake
There aren't any in the active Marine Corps, I don't think there are any in the reserves either. We didn't purchase upgrade kits for the weapons we purchased new rifles.