Your reading again sucks. Tell us about your 147 GT but can't seem to be able to read. I said we had 1911's until we shipped for Desert Shield. So lets see I left Hawaii the end of Aug 1990 for the big sandbox.
I'll take your word for it, since the Army had Berettas fully fielded by about 86-7, it does make sense that the USMC would still be using cast-off schidt. All of them however, that is what few the USMC has, as 0311's hardly ever see a handgun, except for the CO's or maybe a medic or machinegunner's, got replaced by Berettas a LLLLLLOOOOONG time ago.
