What is the OLDEST model weapon that you used in the Military?

PO2 Joan MacNeill - I never owned a lever action rifle, but always looked at them, and wondered. I know they were reliable as owners are always saying, my cousin had a 30-30 and hunted deer in the jungles, he told me, that it was the best bush gun, he had.
Now a days, I like reading, or looking at the new tactical lever action rifles, they sure got my interest. I don't hunt anymore, only if a wild pig comes in the yard.
I never had a .410 but shot some, my first shotgun is a Browning A-5 Lite Twelve Auto shotgun 12 gauge, that I bought in 1969.
I was working at the airforce commissary warehouse for $0.75 an hour. Saved up, and bought it at the Anderson AFB exchange for $136.
Made in Belgium, now a days, I read it's made in Japan. I need a barrel, and I've been looking for one, but very hard to find one made in Belgium.
In the picture it looks like the lower shotgun, not in the best of condition though, when I went in the army, an uncle bowered it from my father, and had it for 4 years, until I came back from the army. But, it is my first firearm, and I'll just keep it.

SGT (Join to see) - My father had an old Browning like that when I was a kid. It was his goose gun.

I may have been one of the last American soldiers to carry a Thompson in combat. In Viet Nam 1971 I left my Infantry platoon in the 1st Cav. Div. and was sent up north to Da Nang to the 196th Light Infantry Brigade and was assigned to Brigade HQ as the Asst. S-5 officer (Civil Affairs). We dealt with the relationships between the 196 LIB and the Vietnamese civilians. I spent a lot of time in the field in a jeep and an M-16 is too long to easily use in a vehicle and a M1911 isn't enough firepower. The office had a Thompson with the shoulder stock removed which was just about the right size to carry in a jeep. I used it several times to return fire when we were sniped at. I kept the 1st magazine filled with tracers because having tracers coming at you, even if they are just .45s, will make you duck or flinch a bit more and that is what I wanted, to distract the guy shooting at me while we evacuated the area as quickly as possible. I don't know where the office got the Thompson. I suspect that it may have been swapped for with some ARVNs or RF/PFs at some point. It wasn't a precision weapon with the shoulder stock gone but it served its purpose and I was able to control it pretty well, particularly hosing down a woodline. BTW, we had 4 30 round mags for it. 1 in the gun and 3 in a carrier.

an M-14

SMSgt Lawrence McCarter - .....
You Were Talk'en With The Recruiter Again, Weren't Ya.?
By The Way, When You Went Out Deer Hunting,
How'd That M-16 Work Out For Ya?

In the 70's and 80's, I used an M1 Garand, the police department had about 10of them from the war, WWII. Was given to the police department from the navy.
Used it for color guard, and 21 guns salute ceremonies.

M1 Garand.

BAR, M1 Garand, M1911

MSG Lonnie Averkamp - Thank you MSG, a picture with my M-2 on the DMZ Korea in 73, and battalion gate guard at Camp Greaves DMZ.

SGT (Join to see) -

I qualified with and carried that old S&W revolver (1905) that they gave to the pilots. We all knew it was pretty much useless. I figured if I ever flew in combat I would check something else out, like a M1911 and an M16.

MAJ Matthew Arnold And the backup for the S&W was surely a British Webley?