MightyQuinn, A 9P or any other 3 battery/9 volt SureFire will put out, to your human eyeball, the same amount of incandescent light as an M3. A G3 will be a lot cheaper and wear as well as the HA 3. The M3s do look cool. If you want HA 3 and the combat rings get a C3. The only reason I see to get an M3 is so that you can, at some time, put SureFires yet to be released 350 lumen millinium (sp?) head on one. Who knows when they will be released and they won't be cheap.
Thanks for your service to our country. Thanks for keeping me and my family safe and free. There are people here in America who appreciate what you and your brothers over there are doing. May God bless you and keep you safe and bring you home.
To show you that I really do care, If you go ahead and buy the M3 without the crenalated head, I will buy one here and ship it to you, no charge to you for anything. Let me know. Check your Pmail.