This was the first standard government issue firearm and the beginning of the long tradition of US military small arms manufacture.
As an additional footnote, in 1956 U.S. military policy dictated the coloring of government issue holsters be changed from natural tan to black.
The relationship reaches its nadir when Francis, afraid that she is about to be shipped off to military school, shoots her father with his government issue sidearm.
Everything she possessed right now was government issue.
The government issue x-ray/night vision binoculars worked great but weren't exactly proving to be all that useful in his search.