The infantry? AFAIK every M16/M4 in the inventory has a bayonet to go with it. Are they issued out with the weapon? Not all the times. Stateside you will probably never touch your assigned bayonet outside the arms room.
I was a tanker in the 80's and we weren't issued any knife. We could check out a bayonet from the arms room when we went to the field but most people furnished their own.
Pretty much everyone here in Iraq carries their own personal fixed blade or folder. Some supply rooms will order Benchmade autos for their guys others won't...
I keep a Benchmade auto clipped in the pocket and a Benchmade fixed on my IBA.
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