New Army "Caliber Configuration Study"

[joker31]

You said that in one fight, "My team alone expended 3200 Rounds in 8.5 hours..."

Doesn't that argue for the smallest, lightest cartridge feasible, so as to maximize the number of rounds carried?

Since the infantry squad currently has two M249 LMG's, I presume you mean add one in a larger caliber? Doesn't that contradict your statement above?

Not exactly, we could have never carried that much ammo on our backs along with all the other crap we had to carry, I had 100Lb+ of gear alone for my role in the mission. We were using vehicles up to a point where we had to leave them, then set up a cache site and set an overwatch over it then my team went into the village, the helo's were dropping it from about 40ft in body bags (Speedballs) One semi bad-guy I knew that was fighting against us later told my team mate that they thought we were dropping in robots to fight because we never stopped advancing, we advanced like robots right towards them and some guys were shot and didnt fall down.... was kinda funny. It really hurts morale when you think your fighting an indestructible enemy. My battle load was 350 rounds of 5.56 in Pmags 11 30rounders and one 20 rounder with tracers for 10.5in M4, 120 rounds of 7.62 for my M14 EBR, went in country with a Leupold, turned in with a NF on it. then was issued a KAC SR-25 and Pmags with a NF but never got to use it in Combat.

Pistol was a Sig M11.