I have troops right now who are afraid to volunteer for Nov 11 firing party as they're not comfortable enough with the weapon that they're afraid they're going to have an ND..."
After I went to fetch a few 1 gallon jugs of CLP to soak our guns at the end of an exercise, I had a troop say to me "Why are you putting on more oil, aren't we just cleaning them soon anyway?"
While teaching BMQ, I still heard crap from my fellow instructors along the lines of "There's carbon at the end of your barrel, inside your flash surpressor... use a gerber and scrape it out"
I've had troops pulling crap like taking the firing pin out of their weapon to avoid an ND.
Too often the only way to turn your weapon into supply is to have it so bone dry that there's not a speck of oil on it...
The Americans released a comic book style set of cleaning/maintenance instructions for the M16 when it was first issued, I had a digital copy of it at one point, have since lost it, it was actually an excellet set of instructions, even going so far as to explain WHY you don't remove the trigger mech, WHY you don't scrape it with steel tools, WHY having oil on the weapons come inspection time is acceptable.