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Jimro
The long range ambush tactics the bad guys use in Afghanistan dictate long distance engagements.
There aren't enough M110s to give to every SDM... so there really was no other viable option but to issue M14s.
Heck there aren't enough of any one system to really do the job.
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I understand that M110s are very slow in coming... it's going to take a couple years for the Marines to replace their relatively small number of M39s with M110s.
TACOM has built over 5000 M14EBR-RI rifles and they have a supply of over 80K M14s that can be converted.
Jimro, would over 85,000 EBRs be enough to really do the job?