The Eugene Stoner Tapes - Part 2: Problems with the M16 in Vietnam and the M16A2

This video is one of many in a series created from an interview conducted by Edward C. Ezell with Eugene Stoner in 1988 at ARES Inc. in Port Clinton, Ohio. All the footage is courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Archives. All I have done is cut some of the waiting time between tapes out and tried to fix the audio. Otherwise, what you are seeing is entirely unadulterated. Feel free to ask any questions about the various topics of the video in the comments. I will do my best to answer them. TIMESTAMPS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0:00 - Project AGILE, McNamara, and early military use of the AR-15 in Vietnam 4:50 - Bobby MacDonald and why Colt didn’t produce AR-10s 6:32 - How the AR-15 stopped M14 production 8:37 - The Army and Airforce’s one time buy of M16s, and Colts offer of a free license 10:54 - Comments on how the Army “firmly“ wanted the M16 to fail 12:50 - C