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But it's not the issued weapon in AFSOC.

 

Neither is a Glock 19 but that isn't unseen either. I work with the tool that bought the 416s for the 24STS and while I don't like him one bit, think he is a cock, and only respect him as much as I have to, I doubt he made it up completely.

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Ya, being an AF brat, the AF can f*** stuff up. The AF is pretty ghetto, PJ finally got some MLCS stuff to use a couple weeks ago.

 

If you will look throught the documents of military contracts you will see they have received large quantities of DBT items in the past. Right now they got some equipment in Multicam.

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What exactly do AWG guys do? I tried wikipedia but it isn't clear to me...

 

 

The Army is creating an “Asymmetric Warfare Group” to assess new tactics adversaries may use to take advantage of U.S. military vulnerabilities, according to service officials and documents. The group is expected to train forces up and down the ranks in countering such threats, with the first priority being those troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, officials say.

 

As it stands, the Pentagon “has no single organization to effectively coordinate, train, integrate, deploy for, or manage” its response to asymmetric threats “within the global war on terrorism,” states the Army’s “operational and organizational concept” for the new unit.

 

Dubbed AWG, the unit will evolve from an existing task force on improvised explosive devices the Army formed late last year, Army officials say. In January, the IED task force began training Army and Marine Corps units in tactics and technologies available to counter the makeshift bombs, which have claimed hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi lives and limbs since the insurgency began last year (Inside the Pentagon, April 22, p9).

 

Potential countermeasures to IEDs include a variety of electronic jammers and robotic bulldozers, though the Army has kept many details secret in a bid to avoid enemy work-arounds, officials say. But to date, no “silver bullet” has been found to defeat the devices, which are detonated remotely by an array of mechanisms using different frequencies (ITP, Feb. 12, p9).

 

The asymmetric warfare specialists—to number nearly 200 soldiers, civilians and contractors by next January—will operate much like the IED task force, but with a broadened mandate. The unit is expected to be capable of planning and training for emerging threats in both conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction. The AWG specialists will prepare to counter high- and low-technology weapons, to include even such futuristic concepts as “ray guns,” according to a task force contractor.

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