The M161A developed for the vietnam war had an action that was so precise it clogged quickly in the dirty and humid environments of South VIetnam.

Clogged weapons killed hundreds if not thousands of GI’s.

The military came up with a solution by intructing the GI’s to clean the weapons thoroghly and often but the Gi’s would not read the training manuals until they started illustrating them with buxom pin up comic style personalities.

From M-16 to ‘The Sweet -16'

Eisner’s background in comics was instrumental in making The M-16A1 Rifle a success. He knew his audience well—basically the same Americans who read his comic books back home, now just a few years older.

Engaging and amusing, the comic didn’t bore the reader or come off as preachy, pushy or overly didactic. The illustrations were clear and to the point. This constrained the writing to the bare minimum, comic book style. It used exclamation points on nearly every page, where a regular Army field manual did not.

Eisner understood what would get young male draftees reading. The M-16A1 Rifle was not above sexual innuendos—it included them right from the start.

The first two pages introduced the comic’s mascot: a blonde, buxom Ann-Margret lookalike wielding the new, improved M-16A1. To the mascot’s flanks are instructions on how to take apart the rifle, entitled “How To Strip Your Baby.”

Other chapters included “Sweet -16” and “All the Way with Negligee.” (The “negligee” in question was a plastic storage bag used to keep the rifle dry.) If that wasn’t an attention getter for grunts who hadn’t seen an American woman in months, nothing was.

The M-16A1 Rifle almost certainly saved the lives of American troops in the middle of a war in Southeast Asia. The comic format was also so popular it persists to this day—minus double entendre and cheesecake—with the latest Army comics issued in January 2014.

Skyhorse Publishing reprinted the The M-16A1 Rifle in 2013. More than 40 years later, 95 percent of the content is still applicable to the U.S. current-issue M-4 carbine, the Marine Corps’ M-16A4 and civilian AR-15s.

But that’s testimony to the guide’s continuing relevance. The comic book as a teaching tool for soldiers was genius. It’s instructive, humorous and a little bit sexy.

Quit tryin to change us and let us have our bewbs.

We’ll be better soldiers and fight happier.

In fact a little flirting and sexual innuendo is even better.

(Actual Pic Related)

Bewbs