It's up to you if you want to listen or not. It's your life. As for me I am very aware of mechanics and physics. But my soldiers are not test subjects. Perhaps sitting at home, mags are fine. Again do what you want. I've spent more than enough time around weapons to know what happens. And to be honest there is a realization by the common grunt that in fact army mags are shit. Hence the popularity or Troy mags and a study by the army itself on weapons failure. Hence the issuance of mags with yellow followers new springs and so on.
I'm all for listening, but you need to provide some actual proof. You say you've seen "
hundreds of mags that were crap because they were loaded for long periods of time". Well, what are the details of this? What types of magazines? Were the feed lips measured or inspected? Were these 5.56 magazines loaded to 30 rounds? What types of "jams" were happening because of these magazines? After these malfunctions, if the feed lips were verified to be good, were the magazines disassembled, cleaned, and tried again? If not, how can you be sure they weren't just dirty? By the way,
the Army has a go/no-go gauge to measure M4 magazine feed lips. I recommend setting up a schedule to have your Soldiers' magazines checked with that gauge. If you're still in and your arms room doesn't have the gauge, have supply order one.
The NSN is 5120-01-574-0036. And if the black coating wears off, order a new gauge.
Yes, Army magazines are garbage. No argument here. Regarding the TAN follower magazines, they were not issued because of springs fatiguing while compressed for extended periods. The tan follower magazines upgrades are as follows:
-Anti-tilt follower
-Wider spring to make the upward force more even across the follower
-More corrosion resistant spring
As you can see, none of this was done to rectify any perceived problem with keeping a magazine loaded.
I don't have arguments like this. The army is not a democracy. That's another tall tale.
What are you even getting at? You don't have arguments like this? Cool, good for you.
Regarding the Army's general investigation into weapon system reliability: Yes, the Army is going to try and make its weapon systems more reliable. You kind of drift off of any sort of point.
But this is ALL MOOT for your situation, because I've said multiple times now that magazines should be regularly disassembled and cleaned in an operational environment.