{"id":79520,"date":"2022-04-02T16:29:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T21:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=79520"},"modified":"2022-04-02T16:29:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T21:29:55","slug":"79520","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=79520","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;<em>Close Combat Force<\/em>&#8216; is an Army euphemism for MOSs 11B Infantry Rifleman, 12B Combat Engineer (they go out and find mines) and 19D Cavalry Scout, and there are a whole lot more than 17,052 of them, so it looks like this is &#8211; maybe &#8211; a preliminary roll out for the Ranger Regiment&#8217;s, 82nd and 101st division&#8217;s combat troops.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The US Army Program Acquisition Costs FY2023 handout notes that FY2023 sees the start of:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;funding for the procurement and fielding of 1,704 NGSW-AR, which is the planned replacement for the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) within the Close Combat Force; Procurement and fielding of 15,348 NGSW-R which is the planned replacement for the M4A1 Carbine within the Close Combat Force.<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefirearmblog.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-29-at-20.54.55.png\" alt=\"US Army Set To Procure 30,000 Next Generation Squad Weapons in 2023\" width=\"600\" height=\"421\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The whole presentation: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/FY2023_Weapons.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"both\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">FY2023_Weapons<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Close Combat Force&#8216; is an Army euphemism for MOSs 11B Infantry Rifleman, 12B Combat Engineer (they go out and find mines) and 19D Cavalry Scout, and there are a whole lot more than 17,052 of them, so it looks like this is &#8211; maybe &#8211; a preliminary roll out for the Ranger Regiment&#8217;s, 82nd and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=79520\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-schtuff","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79523,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79520\/revisions\/79523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}