Ceremonial Rifles (TACOM) and Static Displays

The Cer­e­mo­nial Rifle Pro­gram affords posts and depart­ments an oppor­tu­nity to add dig­nity and class to their honor guard details at events such as funer­als or parades. Under Army reg­u­la­tions, the sec­re­tary of the army may con­di­tion­ally loan not more than 15 excess M1 Garand rifles to an eli­gi­ble orga­ni­za­tion. A for­mal writ­ten request, signed by the Post Com­man­der, must be sub­mit­ted to the National Pro­grams Depart­ment which-after val­i­dat­ing good standing-will for­ward it to the U.S. Tank and Auto­mo­tive Com­mand (TACOM) in War­ren, Michi­gan. TACOM will accept no requests with­out writ­ten approval of AMVETS National Headquarters.

Forms may be requested from the National Pro­grams Depart­ment and downloaded.

The forms you need are;
1. Pri­vacy Act Notice (down­load)
2. Check­list for Rifles (down­load)
3. Cer­tifi­cate of Arms Stor­age (down­load)
4. Cer­tifi­cate of Com­pli­ance (down­load)
5. Cer­e­mo­nial Rifle Inven­tory (down­load)
6. Cer­e­mo­nial Rifle Return Inven­tory (down­load)
7. Tri­en­nial Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion (down­load)
8. Qual­i­fi­ca­tion Check­list for dona­tion of Com­bat Mate­r­ial – VSO (down­load)
9. Sta­tic Annual Cer­tifi­cate (down­load)
10. AMMO and  ACCOUTREMENT Info (down­load)

The Process: Com­plete all forms and write a let­ter, addressed to TACOM, request­ing a spe­cific num­ber of rifles. (from one to fif­teen) The let­ter must be signed by the Post Com­man­der or Adju­tant. Include this let­ter, along with all of the forms and mail to the AMVETS National Pro­grams Depart­ment. Your pack­age will be reviewed and the let­ter val­i­dat­ing your post will be added and then the com­pleted packet will be mailed to TACOM. If every­thing is in order it will still take on aver­age, four to six months.

Addi­tional Resource:
AMVETS Cer­e­mo­nial Rifle Brochure – This brochure has addi­tional infor­ma­tion. (down­load pdf)

ONLY AFTER YOU RECEIVE THE RIFLES – Blank Ammo must be requested from the Joint Muni­tions Com­mand in Rock Island, IL.

POC for request­ing Ammo

Dawn Fol­land
Phone: Toll Free 877–233-2515
E-mail: dawn.lynn.folland@us.army.mil

Slings are not pro­vided through the Dona­tions Pro­gram Group. The slings are avail­able through com­mer­cial sources. Two sources you may con­sider: (Pro­vid­ing these links does not rep­re­sent endorse­ments of any prod­ucts or ser­vices con­tained therein.)

www.amherst-depot.com – Amherst Arms
www.fulton-armory.com – Ful­ton Armory

Ques­tions – May be directed to Beryl Love,
AMVETS National Pro­grams Direc­tor 240.832.7768