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M15 is a general officers' pistol[edit]

It was individually issued to general officers (Brigadier General O-7 or higher), it was not issued to non-general officers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.127.177.201 (talk) 10:44, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Still in use?[edit]

Is this weapon still in use? I mean is there any General today, in 2017, who carries the M15 as a duty pistol? --Exodianecross (talk) 03:32, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

And has any US general ever actually had to draw and fire either the Pocket Hammerless model or the M15? There's a famous photograph (IWM B5323), taken during the Normandy campaign of 1944, showing Montgomery (Commander Allied Land Forces) with Bradley (Commander First US Army) and Dempsey (Commander Second British Army) in front of Monty's staff car. Monty is wearing a beret, grey sweater and corduroy slacks. Dempsey is wearing a general's red-banded cap, battledress and a paratrooper's Denison smock (it was a wet summer). Bradley is wearing a steel helmet, windcheater and a holstered pistol, perhaps the Colt .380 Pocket Hammerless with which he was supposedly issued. And Bradley looks slightly ridiculous next to the casual British generals, because of course he was never, ever, going to find himself in a place where he needed either a steel helmet or a sidearm. Really such pistols were just status symbols, and misguided ones, because it is unbecoming for a general officer (who is at no risk at all) to impersonate an actual infantry officer (whose life expectancy in war is short indeed). Khamba Tendal (talk) 19:12, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, but that wasn't my question. I wanted to know if there is still someone in active service to whom this weapon was issued! --Exodianecross (talk) 20:06, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]