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In my favorite book, The Men of Company K, one of the men relates the story of him getting a nastygram from a quartemaster at the post in the States where they trained. Apparently one of the men in the company went AWOL with his garand and now the qm's records didn't balance, so he had written the company C/O demanding he send funds to cover the cost of the missing weapon.

The letter was arrived in the midst of heavy fighting.

The K Coy officer replied with a letter telling the qm that he had plenty of extra M1s lying about, due to injuries and deaths and if the qm needed a weapon that badly, then he come over and get all he wanted, they were there for the taking. He never heard about it again.