{"id":69107,"date":"2016-11-24T09:21:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T14:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69107"},"modified":"2016-11-24T09:21:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T14:21:55","slug":"marines-to-try-silenced-battalion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69107","title":{"rendered":"Marines to try silenced infantry battalion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/nov\/23\/marine-corps-experiment-silences-entire-infantry-b\/\">Washington Times<\/a>, the Marine Corps is experimenting with putting silencers on all of the weapons in one infantry battalion;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat we\u2019ve found so far is it revolutionizes the way we fight,\u201d Gen. Love recently said at the Marine Corps Association Ground Dinner, Military.com reported Tuesday. \u201cIt used to be a squad would be dispersed out over maybe 100 yards, so the squad leader couldn\u2019t really communicate with the members at the far end because of all the noise of the weapons. Now they can actually just communicate, and be able to command and control and effectively direct those fires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Training exercises using the new approach have already been conducted by Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines. Officials ultimately plan to include weapons systems like the M249 light machine gun and M240G medium machine gun in the experiment.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My tinnitus approves of the plan.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2016\/11\/22\/corps-put-silencers-whole-infantry-battalion.html\">Military.com<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Suppressors work by slowing the escape of propellant gases when a gun is fired, which drastically reduces the sound signature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That means more marksmanship training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Washington Times, the Marine Corps is experimenting with putting silencers on all of &hellip; <a title=\"Marines to try silenced infantry battalion\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69107\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marines to try silenced infantry battalion<\/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":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69107","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=69107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}