1960s M16 operation video. XM16EM1

Good find, they should make all recruits watch something like this so they know how their rifle works.

I remember trying to stay awake and watch that back in 68, setting in a Quonset hut:mrgreen:

Cool video! I sent it to my Dad.

petey1 said:

Cool video! I sent it to my Dad.

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Me too!!

Nice video.

That soldier should learn trigger finger discipline. When they're showing you how to load and fire his finger stays on the trigger. Great video BTW!

Strange, in actual combat the selector is always on burst or Auto(depending on wheter you a M4 or a M16A2/3), and the trigger finger never leaves the trigger until you run out of loaded mags.
Survival always seems to overide safety when the SHTF!!!

I liked those starched and creased
'fatigues'. What are referred to today
as BDUs.

Ed

Thanks for the link.

The M16 video is in the public domain and may be downloaded from http://www.archive.org. I have a copy of the video on my mp3 player. archive.org also have several other public domain M16 documents listed (Do a search for M16 within archive.org).