Amazing rare film: M1 Garand Rifle U.S. CAL.30

TSgt Joe C. PO3 Steven Sherrill CW3 Kevin Storm SSG (Join to see) SGM Steve Wettstein SMSgt Thor Merich MSG (Join to see) PO1 John Johnson MAJ Ken Landgren LTC Greg Henning PVT Mark Zehner MSG Tom Earley Alan K. SPC Mark Huddleston PO1 H Gene Lawrence SGT Elizabeth Scheck Sgt Deborah Cornatzer SSgt Boyd Herrst SPC Diana D. SPC Nancy Greene

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Gotta love those old Army training films. I love the M1 rifle - in 1967 I was in the last training company to be armed with M1 rifles and BARs at the old Infantry Training Regiment at Camp Pendleton. I used to hate that BAR because when we were humping the hills at sling arms, those locked-down bipod legs would bang into my helmet every other step. But it was an accurate rifle at long range (about 500 yards or more). When I got to Vietnam, the South Vietnamese military was still using M1 rifles and M1/M2 carbines (the later was worthless). Later, the RVN military got brand new M16A1s - newer than the ones we had - which generated some comment amongst us. The M14 rifle was the same as the M1, except it had a magazine with more rounds. Accurate, too. As for those old Army training films, I remember when I was going through projectionist school on Camp Pendleton. They let us practice with old films they didn't care about, so we got to run Army undertaker training films for preparing bodies for burial or shipment - like how to sew eyelids and lips shut, and so forth. Funny how things like that still pop into my mind...