Posted on Apr 30, 2023
Can anyone else on Rally Point claim as ‘Second Man’ in your Squad to have acted as ‘Stack Man’?
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With an M-1 Garand, from the position of Attention, the Stack Man would cast his rifle butt forward, hold it and his stacking swivel steady as the man to his right and then the man on his left would engage their stacking swivels with his and and then tighten the ‘stack’ by dragging the butt of his rifle towards himself?
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You were in the Army when they still used Garands? They went to the M14 when? 1957?
The only place I stacked arms was in Infantry OSUT and we did it with M16A1's that did not have a stacking swivel.
The only place I stacked arms was in Infantry OSUT and we did it with M16A1's that did not have a stacking swivel.
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CSM Charles Hayden
CPT Lawrence Cable BPED 15APR53. The Army was still wearing HBTs and 8 pointed caps.
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CPT Lawrence Cable
CSM Charles Hayden I now no longer feel old. Enlisted two years before I was born.
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I have not done stack arms since 1998, maybe 1999. Leadership philosophy shifted in the Army, and after that timeframe, leaving your weapon with someone else to guard it became unthinkable. Stack arms was rendered obsolete.
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Heck not only can I make that claim as an individual, I can say I also taught the Count Off, Stack Arm, Unstack Arms as a Drill Sergeant
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SGM Erik Marquez
CSM Charles Hayden - No, I came in in 85, so I was responding to your post title, not the specific of stacking arms with an M1, that was a bit before my time.
But I have demonstrated and taught stack and unstack arms with an M1903...lol
But I have demonstrated and taught stack and unstack arms with an M1903...lol
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