Marines zero their service rifles on a 36-yard firing range.(Photo by Lance Cpl. Bobby J. Yarbrough).
Corps To Use More Lethal Ammo In Afghanistan -- Navy Times
The Marine Corps is dropping its conventional 5.56mm ammunition in Afghanistan in favor of new deadlier, more accurate rifle rounds, and could field them at any time.
The open-tipped rounds until now have been available only to Special Operations Command troops. The first 200,000 5.56mm Special Operations Science and Technology rounds are already downrange with Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan, said Brig. Gen. Michael Brogan, commander of Marine Corps Systems Command. Commonly known as “SOST” rounds, they were legally cleared for Marine use by the Pentagon in late January, according to Navy Department documents obtained by Marine Corps Times.
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My Comment: The US marines are good shots right now .... I suspect that these bullets will not only give them better range, but it will be more effective to take down the enemy with one shot instead of a few.
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