# 1973 U.S. ARMY M16A1 RIFLE CYCLE OF FUNCTIONING & IMMEDIATE ACTION M-16 ARMALITE AR-15 32464

United States Army presents TF9–4619. February 1973. Rifle: M16A1 Operation. Cycle of Functioning and Immediate Action. This is a 1950’s era, black and white, military training video on how to properly use and maintain the M16A1 rifle. The film also addresses immediate action to remedy some common malfunctions with the weapon. The film opens to a rifle spinning on a table axis. Soldiers in the field with artillery fire. The soldier’s rifle jams 1:00. The soldier falls. A close-up on the M16A1 rifle, 1:30. A soldier demonstrates how to load the M16A1 1:40. The magazine is inserted into the rifle 2:07. The soldier presses in on the magazine catch button 2:20. Demonstration on how to remove the magazine 2:24. The soldier demonstrates how to operate the selector lever 2:40. A demonstration on how the hammer is locked for safe use is shown 2:55. The soldier demonstrates firing the weapon 3:23. The soldier demonstrates how to use the weapon in automatic mode 3:40. The soldier releases an empty magazine and reloads a full magazine 4:00. There is an animation showing the eight steps of using the rifle 4:30. The first section is on “feeding” 4:51. There is a demonstration on how to feed the rifle 5:20. The next step is “chambering” 5:35. There is a demonstration on how to chamber the rifle 6:00. The next step is “locking” 6:30. A demonstration follows on how the firing bolt is locked into the rifle 7:05. The next step in the demonstration is “firing” 7:17. A demo on Semi-automatic…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/32464m16a1operationcycleoffunctioningvwr)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: what its record states (its uploader's public-domain mark, or a licence not shown to be its rights holder's) leaves its US term to decide, and it is dated 1973; under US law a work of that year is free only on facts the site does not hold for it (its US renewal records, or its own country's term on 1 January 1996 for a work published abroad), and otherwise its US term runs to the end of 2068. Unclear is not offered.