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Old 02-25-2013, 10:54 PM
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Your comments reflect my experience. I was in Vietnam '69 - '70 and '70 - '71. We were issued the "USAF" marked 15s. I didn't know until I got there that we could have brought our own guns. Very few did, that I knew, and all were S&W .357 Magnums of one sort or another. Like some others, I got a .45 Government Model from an Army troop.
Our oldest son didn't listen to his father and took his expen$ive 5-yr degree in engineering and became a tactical USAF pilot, joining in July, 2001. Four deployments later . . .
As you said, he was forbidden to take his own gun. He said the Berettas they were issued were pretty worn, and most pilots couldn't hit their asses with both hands, or even handle them safely. My, how things have changed.

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