Originally Posted by
rattman
Dummy training rifles were issued upon request for additional volunteer PT training, you could keep them in barracks unlike real firearms. They were generically called blue guns even tho there was red options. There was steyr AUG, EF-88 and M4 commando
we kept the real ones at the barracks with us, although in locked racks while not in service to avoid Private Pyle moments. One had to know the exact location of ones personal issued weapon at all times.