Please, I don't want to see anything about catastrophic failures that result in injuries. I'm talking about funny or weird malfunctions where no one was hurt.
For example, when I was in OSUT (basic training for you non-Infantry types), we were doing an assault on a building. We were warned not to go full auto, even though it was training. Well, you guessed it, I was on semi, and my M16 went BRRRRRRRRRP. My Drill Sergeant grabbed me and chewed me out about full auto, and I showed him I was on semi. He sent me to the armorer and he reassembled the fire control group correctly.
Another time, I held a duty position that required me to qualify on the M1911. LOL, required me. I was happy to fire anything the Army was stupid enough to put in my hands. I'm on the pistol range, seems so easy, line up the sights, pull the trigger, and the damn thing runs away and dumps the whole magazine. I kept on target, and qualified. Apparently, the armorer fancied himself a gunsmith, and had gotten hold of some National Match parts. By the way, I was using the Company Commander's pistol. Long story short, I was appointed the unit armorer. Former armorer went back to gruntland.
But the weirdest, the absolute weirdest malfunction I ever had was a DOUBLE stove pipe in an M16. This was a miltary-issue M16A1 with live M193 ammunition. Fired several rounds out of the magazine, got a jam, looked down to see TWO expended cases sticking out of the ejection port. Yes, TWO empty casings sticking out of my M16. Its what, 25 or 30 years later? I have no explanation for this. I still haven't figured out how this happened. It's impossibe. You'll call bull****. Hell, I'd call bull**** if I hadn't seen it. But I did see it.
For example, when I was in OSUT (basic training for you non-Infantry types), we were doing an assault on a building. We were warned not to go full auto, even though it was training. Well, you guessed it, I was on semi, and my M16 went BRRRRRRRRRP. My Drill Sergeant grabbed me and chewed me out about full auto, and I showed him I was on semi. He sent me to the armorer and he reassembled the fire control group correctly.
Another time, I held a duty position that required me to qualify on the M1911. LOL, required me. I was happy to fire anything the Army was stupid enough to put in my hands. I'm on the pistol range, seems so easy, line up the sights, pull the trigger, and the damn thing runs away and dumps the whole magazine. I kept on target, and qualified. Apparently, the armorer fancied himself a gunsmith, and had gotten hold of some National Match parts. By the way, I was using the Company Commander's pistol. Long story short, I was appointed the unit armorer. Former armorer went back to gruntland.
But the weirdest, the absolute weirdest malfunction I ever had was a DOUBLE stove pipe in an M16. This was a miltary-issue M16A1 with live M193 ammunition. Fired several rounds out of the magazine, got a jam, looked down to see TWO expended cases sticking out of the ejection port. Yes, TWO empty casings sticking out of my M16. Its what, 25 or 30 years later? I have no explanation for this. I still haven't figured out how this happened. It's impossibe. You'll call bull****. Hell, I'd call bull**** if I hadn't seen it. But I did see it.
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