{"id":28850,"date":"2012-02-23T09:09:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T13:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28850"},"modified":"2012-02-23T09:09:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T13:09:15","slug":"marines-close-to-new-45-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28850","title":{"rendered":"Marines close to new .45 pistol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/012511_marine_pistols_800_edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/012511_marine_pistols_800_edit-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"012511_marine_pistols_800_edit\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/012511_marine_pistols_800_edit-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/012511_marine_pistols_800_edit.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2012\/02\/marine-corps-to-decide-on-new-45-caliber-pistol-022112\/\">Marine Corps Times<\/a> reports that the Marines are about ready to name the winner of their $2.2 million contract for a new .45-caliber M45 Close Quarters Battle Pistol, for issue to Special Operations units;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new pistol is modeled after earlier versions of the 1911 pistol used since the 1980s by force recon units. Those weapons were called the MEU (SOC) pistol, short for Marine expeditionary unit (special operations capable). The precision weapons section at Quantico\u2019s Weapons Training Battalion has hand-assembled 1911s chambered for .45-caliber Automatic Colt Pistol ammo for years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear who the competitors are but the Times article says these guys are in contention;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Several companies submitted samples to the Corps in 2010 as part of the competition, but it is unclear who remains in contention. They included Colt Defense of Hartford, Conn., and Springfield Armory of Geneseo, Ill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m so glad to see the military move away from the Euro-wienie calibers and thug guns. I was so disappointed when, during my service, the Army scrapped the time tested .45 for the Beretta 9mm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marine Corps Times reports that the Marines are about ready to name the winner of &hellip; <a title=\"Marines close to new .45 pistol\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28850\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marines close to new .45 pistol<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}