[sabresandy]

All right. All good points; I'm glad to at least be provoking a discussion. Did the US Army press the M60 into the squad role, at least? I got the impression that it did.

As for the rifle-grenades, US squads typically change their TO&E in 1958, when they get the M-14s. Before that, their TO&E is unchanged from 1946 onwards. Introducing the M28 grenade in the middle of that will require an extreme amount of work. It might be easier to just introduce the M-31 from 1958 onward, with the new TO&E they get when they ditch the Garand and pick up the M-14s.

The main thing is to make US infantry squads not totally useless in the AT role before the LAW is introduced.

I'm aware that the BAR was officially phased out in 1958, but given that squads were still armed with it on an ad hoc basis, I think it'd be a good idea for it to be an option for the Marine fireteams or squads; ditto the M14A1, though I've heard it was rather terrifying (for the operator, not necessarily for the target) in the squad automatic role.