redriver - Yea, when I was in the corps, we were issued M16a1's, them when the Russians invaded Afghanistan in '79 they took back the M16's and gave us M14's out at 29 Palms (since the M16 was a pain in the desert sand...jammed more than usual! ), then, they took the M14's back, and gave us M16's again, to this day, I will NEVER own an AR platform! I hated the M16a1.