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On page 1 of this thread, TAM had posted a longish piece which contained this:

U.S. special operations forces, with their own acquisition budget and the latitude to buy gear the other military branches can't, already are replacing their M4s with a new rifle.

Does anyone know what rifle this is?

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During a D-Day show, probably on the History Channel they interviewed an old man who
had been a German soldier who manned a bunker overlooking Normandy Beach.

He was a machine gunner. I don't know which German MG he had. Here was this pleasant
looking grandfatherly gentleman, recalling the battle. He had 12 boxes of ammo for his MG.
Each box had 1,000 rounds. After he had killed as many Allied troops as possible with his
12,000 rounds, he escaped from the bunker and was captured by Allied troops.

He never let on what his mission had just been since he expected to have been executed
on the spot. He may have been one of the deadliest German defenders that day.

No mention was made on how long it took him to fire 12,000 rounds. No mention was made of
any failures.

SIA