[Suhiir]

Heck, when I was aboard dear old AS-32 in 1975-7 the Navy still had a BAR in the armory (I got to fire it once, fun weapon) and the Marines used M14s. But the new gear (usually) goes to those that need it most, so they didn't have M16s aboard ship. And in 1991 our XO drew an M79 from the armory (and a bunch of colored flares and smoke, he wanted to use it for signaling not combat).

I'd have drawn an M14 in 1991 but there were only a limited number available and I wasn't that high in the pecking order. I used the M9 only because they'd run out of M1911s.