...drawn by Will Eisner, the former Army comic artist who designed vehicle manuals in World War II.

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I had never run across this before.

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How many of you guys got issued this manual?

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Wasn't 'issued', but I've seen it before.

 

I got one from a buddy. Really cool. Seem to demand a premium from the surplus/retro M16/Vietnam era collectors.

That is an issue of "PS Monthly" a pub that would come out monthly (duh) with tips and stuff for different pieces of equipment. It was only a few years ago that the last printed issue was sent out. It's all digital now. We used to get those in our maintenance shop and our pubs guy had to keep a year on hand (just one of those weird pubs rules we had). Had some good tips and info on the tank. Somewhere in my garage I have one of the last hard copy issues, I'll see if I can find it.

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I've not only seen it before I've got a well worn copy.

It's in the original carton that contains my pristine Colt AR-15
(early 70's vintage). The original invoice ($179.00) is in there too.

Pretty sure I picked up the comic book at the Charlotte Army Nat. Guard.

The Classic.

I've seen it before, but after serving. In a mil-surp store. In my day, we got a different manual;
the TM9-1005-249-10 from 1977. With a pale blue cover. My 1983 manual for the A2 (a Marine Corps manual) is woodland camo.

I miss Connie.

I have one. Got it for a retro M16E1 build I'm still scrounging parts for.


ARman

I've got my older brother's somewhere around here.

That manual was laying around every supply and arms room in the early 1980's. Bonnie and Connie were drawn that way on purpose so young men would want to read PS magazine and DA pams. By the time I retired in 2013, the characters were so toned down some were almost androgynous.

I bought a complete retro E1 from Brownells and a copy was included with it.