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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Misfire
    sub title: the tragic failure of the M16 in Vietnam
  name:
    name part: Orkand, Bob
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Duryea, Lyman
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 251 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Misfire combines insider knowledge of U.S. Army weapons development with firsthand combat experience to tell the story of the M16, iconic as the American weapon of the Vietnam War and, indeed, as the U.S. military's standard service rifle until only a few decades ago despite its tragic failure.
  table of contents: For want of a nail -- Why replace the M14? -- The M16 and its development -- The small arms weapons systems test -- CYA-- the name of the game -- The troops deploy-- an autopsy of the problem -- Weighed in the balance-- a jammed M16 caused my first KIA / by Lyman Duryea -- Someone had blundered -- In council rooms apart -- The uncertain trumpet -- Why not the ARVN? -- The rifle, politics, the aftermath / by Lyman Duryea -- "When will they ever learn?" / by Bob Orkand -- Afterword.
  note: Bob Orkand and Lyman Duryea.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: a-vt---
  subject:
    topic: M-16 rifle
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    topic: Equipment and supplies
  classification: UD395.M2 O74 2019
  classification: 623.4/425
  identifier: 9780811737968
  identifier: 0811737969
  identifier: 9780811767958 (electronic)
  identifier: 2019001930
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190115
    record change date: 20191021082011.0
    record identifier: in00003989057