USAF issuing SIG M18s

[Stephanie B]

Sailors are apparently even weaker than Zoomies. USN is getting "special" M18s with three 17-round magazines - Navy don't want no extended mags!

I'm surprised the Navy's even getting them. They're normally at the back of the line for small arms.

[jetfire]

I'm surprised the Navy's even getting them. They're normally at the back of the line for small arms.

They are, but they're doing it differently than the Army and the Air Force. Instead of just replacing all their M9s and the Corps' M9A1s, they're only replacing pistols when they reach end of life cycle, so the Corps will have their A1s until the mid 2020s according to the last report I saw.

[Wake27]

The Combat Arms program manager sent out a message to the shops that had their pistols to see if anyone else had experienced it yet. The guns are out there, when we were coming home from our last deployment, the inbound cats that were replacing one of our neighbor squadrons had a mix of M18s and M9s.

Yeah I know they’re around, my work gun is an M17. I was saying that I’m surprised I hadn’t heard about the message.


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[Hunter Rose]

As far as I'm aware M-18s are only with Security Forces at this point. Still think there are M-9s in the inventory for aircrew. This thread has peaked my curiosity so I'll check in with AFE next week.

[JBP55]

Garand Thumb shows us an M18:

https://youtu.be/q6Awg_qy0Io

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Most of these videos have far too much talk. More action and less talk.

[HCM]

As far as I'm aware M-18s are only with Security Forces at this point. Still think there are M-9s in the inventory for aircrew. This thread has peaked my curiosity so I'll check in with AFE next week.

My co-worker is deployed to AFG with the USAF reserves and they are still rocking M9s.

[JTQ]

I shot an M15 at USAFA basic training in ‘90. They had M9s when I worked as cadre two years later.

I arrived there in '92. No M15's just the M9 then.

As far as I'm aware M-18s are only with Security Forces at this point. Still think there are M-9s in the inventory for aircrew.

I suspect the M9's will be around for a while.

I was a B-52 guy and we went through Desert Storm in 1991 and post Desert Storm, admittedly a BRAC base closure in 1994, and never saw an M9.

[Half Moon]

I suspect the M9's will be around for a while.

I was a B-52 guy and we went through Desert Storm in 1991 and post Desert Storm, admittedly a BRAC base closure in 1994, and never saw an M9.

Circa the same timeframe, the Navy, at least on my ship, was state of the art... for Vietnam, 1965... 1911's, 870's, M-14's, M-79's...

[jetfire]

As far as I'm aware M-18s are only with Security Forces at this point. Still think there are M-9s in the inventory for aircrew. This thread has peaked my curiosity so I'll check in with AFE next week.

OSI should have them, but yeah only OSI, cops and CATM have them so far. Aircrews gonna have M9s for a while

[g45c]

11 million for 125000 pistols, that's $176 each.. Sounds like a deal IF they run like they're supposed to..