In January 2017 it was announced that SIG Sauer had won the U.S. Military Modular Handgun System (MHS) contract to replace the Beretta M9 as the standard U.S. military sidearm, and later that year the U.S. Army announced the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions were to be the first units to receive the M17. Only 3,000 of these pistols were returned to SIG Sauer for sale on the commercial market. The shipping box is a numbered match to the pistol and identifies it as "UDM17-9-SURPLUS" and contains two extra magazines, an extra recoil spring, cable lock, and papers. A LMD laser light combo (as adopted through the MHS PAiL program) is also included. Per the included certificate, this pistol was part of the initial deployment of the U.S. M17 MHS Pistol in American service. An included copy of a Department of Defense Freedom of Information Act letter states this pistol was shipped to Army General Supply (Logistics Modernization Program Stock Records) from SIG Sauer Inc. on October 30, 2017. On December 8, 2017 it was received by the 0032 Armor Squadron 01 Alpha Motorized Troop at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. On December 19, 2019 the pistol was shipped to the Defense Logistics Agency in Anniston, Alabama from United States Army Logistics Readiness Center at Fort Campbell, and shipped to SIG Sauer that same day.