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Oh eys, forgot to add one thing - don't be too afraid to mix things up, especially with sidearms. Staggering numbers of accounts of officers carrying weapons from wildly varying sources exist. Patton carried a Colt Peacemaker for parades and a Smith & Wesson M-27 for combat. A good friend's father took a matched pair of Browning High Power 9mm's as war booty from an NVA Colonel in a bunker, and he carried a Ruger Blackhawk in .357 magnum as a sidearm while flying missions in Viet Nam.
The normal soldier will carry issue kit, but officers are given more leeway.
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