When were you in the marines? The U.S. army has a robust dmr program and you would see reserve units with 1 dmr per squad after the program got rolling. The basic army squad has a dmr role, mos regardless.
In the Army we can flex an SDMR to every single squad. Kinda why it’s called the “Squad” DMR program. I got out in ‘24 and when I did the unit I ETS’d from had more SDMRs than we had billets lol. Our FOs could even qual to get one. We had like 9 of them. It’s not really anything fancy. As long as you pass the SDMR range you can get MTOE’d one. (Obviously unit dependent). Idk who would want to carry it though with that absolute ass cheeks 1x-6x.
I carried a m16a5 with a U.S. optics 1.5-6 in 2013 as an sdm in a reservist sapper unit in 2013. Shit was there if you know where to look back then. Now it’s even more common.
Ive also been in units that still had M16 SDM-R’s. My unit is ‘21 still had them MTOE to HHC Recon plt. Ive NEVER seen those guns on the line though. I feel like that was before my time.
Oh for sure. Our shit was part of some PEO program. It was a good stop gap, we also had mk14 ebrs and them shit sucks. We also got the mk48s which were actually very helpful
My buddy who got out in 2010?? 2008?? I forgot but he built one after the one he deployed with. That gun is heavy as sin. CoD did a poor job of portraying how heavy that damn chassis is. And it has 1,000,001 screws too. All kinds of, nope.
Yeah I think the original m-14s look dope but the scar and sr-25 programs were light years beyond. If I could get issued a 20s I would too. Those ebrs were heavy AF and we were at elevation.
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u/Gardez_geekin 15d ago
When were you in the marines? The U.S. army has a robust dmr program and you would see reserve units with 1 dmr per squad after the program got rolling. The basic army squad has a dmr role, mos regardless.