On my Carrier I was in the ships armory on one occasion to peek at the goodies stored there. WWII 45's. WWII Garands, 1919 machine guns, only the Marines had made the change to the M14 in 7.62 Nato. Pilots had the old WWII revolvers as side arms as best as I can recall. Don't recall when the M60 came out. So basically the ships company who were on the "Marine Landing Party" were stuck with WWII issue firearms. This would have been about 1965-66. Probably some Bar back in there and maybe some Thompson 45 submachine guns. When they decomissioned her I would have loved to be a fly on that wall just to see what became of all that old iron. She was decomissioned I think late 77 early 78 and scraped shortly after that. And she could still do 32 knots and did a full power run before coming home. Frank