THE TRANSFORMATION OF MARINE MARKSMANSHIP
The Transformation of Marine Marksmanship - War on the Rocks
Ryan popped over to Quantico to speak with four marines at the forefront of major advances in marksmanship in America's 9-1-1 force. Listen in as Maj.warontherocks.com
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Continuously Revolutionizing Small-Arms Lethality: The Marine Corps’ strategic opportunity is hereby the NCOs, SNCOs, and Officers of Weapons Training Battalion, Quantico
About the same weight class as the M1 Garand/M14. If our previous generation(s) could handle the same weight so can the the existing/future ones. The 5.56 M4s will still serve in secondary roles/support sections.I think they will realize that this system will be too heavy in the future. What infantry really needs is light and powerful round, that's it, nothing fancy.
Given that, is it really worth it to inject yet another caliber into the logistics train? Esp when it’s a very exotic round that’s both expensive to make and offers little that the 7.62 X 51 can’t already do? Just a thought.An elaboration...
As of right now, NGSW program is only intended for the close combat force consisting of Infantry, Cav Scouts, Combat Engineers, SOF, and select enablers. That means there are just over 13,000 XM-7 and XM250s being fielded to replace the M4's, M240s and M249 SAWs in those formations.
Those formations aren't the average Army infantryman.