1911A! GI Cleaning kit?

[Patria Povo]

OK, riddle me this, Batmen ... what did Uncle Sam issue in the way of cleaning kits for the .45ACP, during it's 70+ years in the inventory?

[XO3319]

used a grease gun cleaning kit

or just a standard GI .45 bore brush and and MG cleaning rod

Never saw a .45 ACP cleaning kit issued even when we still had them in inventory.

[omerta123]

i suppose your going to tell us

[Patria Povo]

Doesn't that strike anyone else as bizare?

I asked my dad, whoi said that in Vietnam they mostly used .50 cal MG brushes and stuff ... I just can't believe that a dedicated kit was never issued.

Come to think of it .... anyone seen a 9mm 92F cleaning kit?

Hey, what does Uncle Sam have against clean sidearms??

[DAA1]

Only thing I seen was a cleaning rod with threads for a brush and a slot for the patch. I use old m16 chamber brushes, and was lucky enough to find said cleaning rod in an old arms room I cleaned out... wish there would have been more. A decent m16 cleaning kit can clean a few different firearms. The old cleaning kits, not the new otis ones...

[k98k792]

Dang Patria! Sharp of you to note that. That is one of those things that no one seems to notice. Seems a glaring deficiency. Also that is something rare,a unique question!

[M1 Tanker]

I've never been issued a 9mm cleaning kit for the M9. I know the wife didn't get a 9mm kit either before she shipped to Iraq.

[Seattlefungus]

I had the pleasure of opening a crate of M1911a1's fresh from Depot rebuild in 1974. Each one was Level A packed, (US did not use cosmoline anymore). Level A was cleaned, lubed and vacumed sealed like a seal a meal. In each pack was one pistol, 3 mags, 1 black leather flap holster, one .45 bore brush and a bore punch made of tube metal which had a threaded hole on one end for the bore brush, a cut slot for the patch and the other end was looped in to a ring. That's what we had, and that's what we issued and that's what they lost. I was Golf 2/5 company armorer for 1974/75. We could'nt get replacements unless the broken ones were turned in. as they were "lost" it was "too bad"... Oh yeah, they each had a green nylon pistol lanyard too...

[Seattlefungus]

On Bereta's M9's, I have 2 I bought new. neither came with a cleaning rod. My Glock did, My Smith&Wessons did, My Colt's did. All they were was a bore punch. Clock included a plastic bore brush. The others all came with a brass bore brush... The Smiths boxes were blue and nicely marked. so were the Colts boxes. Glocks were fancy black plastic. Beretta's was a crappy plain cardboard box with a cheap photo print on an open slip-on sleeve. One of the M9's was evan the "Special Service Issue" What a crap box!

[XO3319]

My M9 Beretta holster-- sometimes came with a plastic cleaning rod. It depended how new the holster was.

In Afghanistan I had a cleaning kit made up of an OTIS system, a 9mm boresnake and graphite

[Optimus Prime]

I don't remember ever seeing even an otis system for our 9's when I went to Afghanistan... Somehow I got screwed and had to lug around an M-16 the whole time and not an M-9 like I was supposed to be issued.

[Seattlefungus]

You know, thats one thing the Soviet block did well, put a slot right on the holster for a cleaning rod. Makes so much sense. I have no Idea why we havn't done it. Heck, I think the last time they had a rod on a rifle was the 1860's trapdoor springfield... Course we put a butt storage for a sectioned rod on ours.