{"id":37745,"date":"2013-09-27T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37745"},"modified":"2013-09-27T08:53:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T12:53:26","slug":"army-wastes-14-million-on-new-rifle-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37745","title":{"rendered":"Army wastes $14 million on new rifle program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/sep\/26\/golden-hammer-army-gun-shopping-spree-came-up-empt\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> writes about the Army&#8217;s search for a new battle rifle that it didn&#8217;t want or need to replace the M4, with which the Army was perfectly happy because Tom Coburn made them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The tale of the replacement search for the M4 carbine rifle \u2014 the preferred weapon of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan since first issued in 2010 \u2014 illustrates how military leaders and taxpayers can get squeezed by the whims of congressional players.<\/p>\n<p>Under pressure from a powerful senator, the Army reluctantly launched the Individual Carbine program to find a replacement for the M4, even though top Army officials seemed pleased with the weapon\u2019s performance despite a few cases of jamming in the field. Then, after a lengthy effort to test new alternatives, the Pentagon decided to stay with its current gun, leaving behind a hefty bill for browsing, not buying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Army wasted about $14 million on a competition to identify a source to supply new carbines it does not need,\u201d the Pentagon\u2019s chief watchdog, the inspector general, warned in a report this month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s encouraging. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times writes about the Army&#8217;s search for a new battle rifle that it didn&#8217;t &hellip; <a title=\"Army wastes $14 million on new rifle program\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37745\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army wastes $14 million on new rifle program<\/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":[198,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37745","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=37745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}