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    GOVERNMENT SURPLUS

    Mar 23, 2021 3 minutes
    By Tom Marshall

    Back in Issue 35, we ran a Build-sheet on editor Dave Merrill’s recreation of his Marine Corps Issue M16A4, circa 2004. We’ve decided to revisit the theme of cloning one’s military service rifle with a rebuild of my own Army-issued M4, carried on a one-year deployment to Operation: Iraqi Freedom in 2009-2010. During this time, I was a 1st Lieutenant working as a Reconnaissance Platoon Leader, running a variety of reconnaissance and counterinsurgency missions in my assigned Area of Responsibility (AOR).

    That turn-of-the-decade time period was a transitional

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