The M16A1 Rifle
Subtitle: Operation and Preventive Maintenance
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781616088644
Description: The U.S. Army teamed up with cartoonist and graphic artist Will Eisner to produce teaching tools for U.S. soldiers in a medium that they could easily understand. *The M16A1 Rifle: Operation and Preventive Maintenance*, first printed in 1969, features a female narrator who instructs GIs on the proper care of their AR-15 (military name M16A1) rifles—firearms notorious for jamming and malfunctioning. More than a simple manual and step-by-step guide, this unconventional yet important military document tried to appeal to soldiers with suggestive chapter titles such as “How to Strip Your Baby,” “What to Do in a Jam,” “Sweet 16,” and “All the Way with Négligé.” A copy of the thirty-two-page booklet was issued to nearly every soldier serving in Vietnam.
Notes: Color illustrations.
Table of contents: label: The M16A1 rifle 1; label: A brief illustrated history of the AR-15/M1 rifle