Author: Michael

Somewhere in North Carolina, the headquarters element of the 82nd Airborne Division is sitting still. Not training. Not deploying. Just…waiting. The Army canceled its training rotation at Fort Polk, Louisiana, without much explanation, and the silence that followed has been louder than any press release.
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Meanwhile, seven American service members are dead. A hundred and forty more have been wounded. Operation Epic Fury, the largest U.S.

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Every Marine is a rifleman, but under new marksmanship rules announced this week, the few and the proud who also shoot pistols can now do so with an optic for the first time, Corps officials said.
A recent Marine Administrative Message, or MARADMIN, announced that Marines are allowed to use the M17 Romeo red dot optic for Combat Pistol Program qualifications. These types of optics use Light-Emitting Diodes, or LEDs, to project a dot at the point of aim. Military Times was the first to report on the MARADMIN.

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