Quote Originally Posted by stencollector View Post
The term Dewat stands for deactivated war trophy. The origional application would have been for things like all those MG08s and 08/15s that were brought back and distributed to Legions. The two terms dewat and deac are usually used to pretty much mean the same thing. Seems to me the older CFC guidelines actually had the word dewat slip in there somewhere.

The way things have been going here in Canadaicon, we'll be deactivating our Cooeys yet.
Funny you mention it....I've inspected Cooey DP's at Cadet units that had the bolt removed & disposed of and the chamber pinned.....as per Military Deact guidelines at the time.....white stripes and all....
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