101st Airborne soldiers first to receive Next Gen Squad Weapon
Soldiers with the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell, Kentucky are the first to receive the Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapon.
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Soldiers with the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell, Kentucky are the first to receive the Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapon.
More than five years in the making, the Next Generation Squad Weapon will replace the M4 rifle that all soldiers carry.
The lore filtered down from American ground forces in Vietnam—and later from those in Iraq, Afghanistan and other conflicts—was that the M16 and its related M4 platform worked well when they worked, but sometimes failed spectacularly under various combinations of dust, dirt and heat.
Parsippany, NJ– Representative Mikie Sherrill (NJ-11) visited Picatinny Arsenal with Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Doug Bush, a bipartisan group of local elected officials, and representatives from the Morris County Chamber of Commerce and County College of Morris. She invited the group of community leaders to join her for an update