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The USMC tends to get new gear a year or two after the US Army and converted from M1's to M14's about 1962 and from M14's to M16's about 1969. M14's have never been totally dropped from the TO&E tho and are still in use for some specific applications.

When the USMC finally got the M60 machineguns in about 1967 they were extremely unhappy with them and officially hung on to their BAR's until 1969 and unofficially much longer.

Since the M60 was suppose to replace both the BAR and M1919 MMG they tended to continue to use the BAR at the squad level and converted to the M60 at the platoon/company level.

The M14A1 SAW was also an extremely unpopular piece of gear and they used it only when they had to.

As to the M16's in the MG and AT sections that's just a matter of the unit creation. To simplify things for myself I have the MG units converting from the M1919 to the M60 and from M1's/M2's to M16 at the same time. Since both equipment changes happened within a couple of years of each other.

As it happens the units I selected were for 1967 so yes at that time they had a true mish-mash of weapons.

Heck, we still had M20 3.5" Bazookas in our storerooms in 1984 *chuckles*