The Marine Corps Times (not affiliated with the USMC) released an article detailing the activities of Marine Infantrymen from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines while undergoing training in the Cultana Training Area of South Australia. Post OIF/OEF, [Read More…]
By this point, most of my readers will be familiar with the fabulous work being done (almost single-handedly) by Ian McCollum for his site ForgottenWeapons.com, and those who aren’t should click through and subscribe to his channel for some of the best gun-related [Read More…]
The Marine Corps Special Operations Command posted a video showcasing their tactical driving and shooting course. They teach driving and shooting techniques to build on proficiency for the MARSOC Marines.
According to the Marine Corps Times (which is not formally affiliated with the United States Marine Corps), the USMC is starting to phase out the OTIS soft cleaning kits in favor of an old-time favorite – the three rod cleaning kits originally issued with the [Read More…]
While the (at least one would hope) “normal” saber rattling from North Korea continues unabated, the United States and South Korea are conducting their yearly Operation Foal Eagle, a yearly exercise of US and Korean military personnel. This year, the [Read More…]
A Marine Corps Times Article that came out on the 26th of October has sealed the deal on the Marine Corps adoption of the M4 service rifle over the M16A4 rifle. It was pretty well known that the Marine Corps was going to come to this, but the official approval and [Read More…]
A while back, I received an email asking for my input on the M855A1 issue. It was from Will, a reader of mine who was working on an article trying to cut through a lot of the myths (on both sides) about the round. I assisted him as best I could, and now the product [Read More…]
The MEU stands for Marine Expeditionary Unit. In this video you get to see Force Recon practicing with their M4s and Colt 1911s. In the video you get to see a clever rolling target to simulate a moving target.
When you travel abroad, there’s no telling what you might find. Tim of the Military Arms Channel was visiting the MKE factory in Turkey, when he stumbled upon an extremely rare original Stoner 63 rifle sitting in an arms locker. The very short video he made to [Read More…]
Posted up on their Facebook page, Haley Strategic Partners is auctioning one of the unicorns of the firearms world, a MagPul MPLR complete rifle in new, never fired condition. The rifle includes the ambidextrous bolt release, 4 PMAGS, XTM Panels, and a custom [Read More…]
Actor Keith David narrates this National Geographic documentary of the 5th Marine Regiment in Afghanistan. Lots of talk about tactics. Gratuitous video of M4s, machine guns, and other weapons used. Here is a shot from a helicopter. The bright lines are IR [Read More…]
MARSOC has won a small victory in attaining authorization to use Glock 19 handguns in qualifications. Soldier Systems has the story: In a Marine Corps MARADMIN message issued last week, MARSOC is authorized to use GLOCK 19 pistols, but as USSOCOM assets. This weapon has [Read More…]
MarineTimes reports of a new set of upgrades and enhancements slated to hit USMC M16A4 rifles and M4 carbines over the next few years. The final decision as to exactly what enhancements will be made has not occurred, but a general outline of the improvements desired has [Read More…]
Here is a video of a Marine who was lucky and his helmet protected him when an enemy sniper shot at him. 40 seconds into the video you hear a pop and the Marine in front of the guy with the camera tilts his head back from the hit. No injuries other than his ears [Read More…]
An article on Marine Times talks about how Marines from 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines using blindfolds to increase weapon manipulation skills during training. Putting a blindfold on enhances the senses,” James said. “It teaches Marines to keep their head up and [Read More…]
This is hilarious. The Swedish military is making fun of US recruitment ads. They point out common characteristics seen in US military commercials. Juxtaposed to a stereotypical military commercial is the reality. Oh and their strange futuristic weapon appears to be a [Read More…]
According to Soldier Systems Daily, the U.S. Marines awarded B.E. Meyers a $49 million dollar contract for laser dazzlers. It is a non-lethal green laser that dazzles the target so their ability to shoot or fight back is greatly reduced because they cannot look at the [Read More…]
Funkertactical posted up a video of U.S. Marines cross training with French Foreign Legion soldiers. According to Funkertactical: In this video filmed by SSgt Tanner Iskra we are witnessing incredible footage of U.S. Marines and The French Foreign Legion cross [Read More…]
Leave it to a few Marines to figure out a solution to a problem. Now, the solution may not be what you were expecting, but it typically gets the job done. Said solutions are rarely aesthetically pleasing, but full of bravado and a bit of gusto. Devil Dog Concepts has [Read More…]
Thanks to Pekka for sending this one over to us. The US Marines Black Sea Rotational Force is seen training in Finland. Training for cold urban combat. Interesting that they are using the RK-95 and not the standard issued M4.
The news that the USMC had adopted the Colt 1911 Rail Gun as the new M45 pistol generated a lot of controversy. People could not understand why the Marines would adopt a very generic 1911 pistol when more modern, lighter and higher capacity pistols were readily [Read More…]
Colt Defense and Springfield Armory are both in the running to have one of their 1911 pistols adopted by the Marines as the M45 Close Quarter Battle Pistol. Military.com reports … Colt Defense of Hartford, Conn., and Springfield Armory of Geneseo, Ill., sent [Read More…]
Nexus-7 at ARFCOM said … This M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle, along with 83 others, was delivered last Friday to Marine Corps Base Hawaii, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment armorers. Since then, M27 IAR gunners and armorers have received training on operating and [Read More…]
The USMC like their M27 IAR so much that they are considering dumping the SAW in favor of it. Military.com reports … Lt. Gen. George Flynn, who heads the Marine Corps Combat Development Command in Quantico, told reporters at a Washington, D.C. breakfast that the [Read More…]
The Marine Times reports … The Marine Corps intends to purchase 1.8 million rounds of the Army’s new green bullet in addition to the millions of U.S. Special Operations Command cartridges already downrange as the service looks to find the best replacement for [Read More…]
From the NYT … As envisioned, the teams will work like American politicians who campaign door to door and learn what voters care about. A team is to arrive in a village, get permission from the male elder to speak with the women, settle into a compound, hand out [Read More…]
Over the past 6 months I have been following the Marines sly procurement of M45 1911 pistols (formally MEU(SOC) pistol) in small parts. The Marines have just procured 150,000 rounds of Federal Premium Gold Medal .45 Auto 185GR FMJ-SWC Match Ammunition. The procurement [Read More…]
The T48 was the designation of the FN FAL entered into the competition to replace the M1 Garand. The T44 (later called the M14) won the competition but the Marines appear to have kept their quote of T48 rifles. These have been meticulously photographed by an Australian [Read More…]
In September I wrote that the Marine MEU(SOC) M1911 pistol appeared to have finally been given an official DoD designation. A solicitation request, number M6785410R1030, was issued last week for M45 parts … The intent of this sources sought request is to identify [Read More…]
A couple of days ago I blogged about H&K winning the USMC’s IAR competition. There has been much confusion regarding the IAR competition since then. Dan Lamothe, who broke the news, updated his The Marine Times article and added that it now appears that the [Read More…]
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