Ethan Persoff scanned a US Army rifle maintenance booklet from 1968 that instructs soldiers to treat their rifles like a woman. Art by the incomparable WIll Eisner. Link
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May 15, 2008
Will Eisner M-16 U.S. Army rifle maintenance booklet (1968)
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