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Seen a few documentaries on the Vietnam War and the consenses among militart historians seems to be that the m16 rifle of the US army compared poorly to the AK47 assault rifles of the NVA and the Vietcong guerilla army with some of the major issues being lack of reliability in jungle climate as well as its penchant to jam when wet.

So the challenge is to devise a scenario/POD where the US army drops the m16 as the standard loadout for Infantrymen serving in Vietnam.

What effects do you think mightve had on the war effort?
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