Randy I'm going back to the post today and pick up a 100 rounds of the new blanks, I've already ordered a small base die and I'll give that a try.
The post commander said that lake city was contacted about the issue but were non-responsive.
I'm not personally on the honor guard, just the armorer. I was there yesterday to return one of the M1s that was misbehaving.
When they got back the honor guard was pretty frustrated. They still had the two rounds that didn't fire due to light strikes so I loaded a clip with those two rounds at the top and went behind the building to test them. Both fired fine but the live round left in the chamber still stuck and I had to do the mortar maneuver to get it out.

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