If you get a chance check out this show. Tonight's installment was a tour of the M16 rifle assembly line at FN's factory in South Carolina. A lot of interesting detail on how this rifle is manufactured, The other two spots were on how the M1114 Up-Armored HMMWV and the Advanced Combat Helmet are manufactured.
An interesting sidelight was a conversation with one of FN's employees. He had spoken earlier with his son who is in the Air Force and currently serving in Iraq (with Security Forces, evidently). They got to talking about the M240 machine gun and the serial number of the particular weapon that the son was using, and it turns out that the guys son was using an M240 that his father had given final inspection on in the plant. Pretty cool.
An interesting sidelight was a conversation with one of FN's employees. He had spoken earlier with his son who is in the Air Force and currently serving in Iraq (with Security Forces, evidently). They got to talking about the M240 machine gun and the serial number of the particular weapon that the son was using, and it turns out that the guys son was using an M240 that his father had given final inspection on in the plant. Pretty cool.