I remember drill sergeants tossing m16a4s as far as they could to show how durable they were.

And then making us clean them to the point of probably damaging to rifling/chamber for "White glove inspections."

I hope they change their stance on that but the arms makers probably love it. Also why the rifles in basic training don't shoot as accurate as the ones you get afterwards.. usually anyways, there were some duds and one time I qualified sharpshooter with a wobbly aimpoint mount which was kinda funny.

I used to throw the third shot in the three round zero range a few times in a row so I could get more ammo and get a better zero on it using more rounds (10 or so).