{"id":21876,"date":"2026-03-24T17:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21876"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:12:18","slug":"m27-vs-m7-why-the-marines-arent-buying-the-armys-new-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21876","title":{"rendered":"M27 Vs. M7: Why The Marines Aren\u2019t Buying The Army\u2019s New Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Marines expect to be fighting where they may be on islands cutoff from resupply and need a weapon easy to maintain. They also expect to be close to the enemy, so a larger mag size is more important than the distance the bullet fires. And thus, the Marines are not adapting the Army&#8217;s new rifle. The Marines also don&#8217;t want to deal with the growing pains of adopting a new rifle and ammunition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"M27 Vs. M7: Why The Marines Aren\u2019t Buying The Army\u2019s New Rifle\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3zkiqJsAxj0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marines expect to be fighting where they may be on islands cutoff from resupply and need a weapon easy to maintain. They also expect to be close to the enemy, so a larger mag size is more important than the distance the bullet fires. And thus, the Marines are not adapting the Army&#8217;s new rifle. The Marines also don&#8217;t want to deal with the growing pains of adopting a new rifle and ammunition. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3zkiqJsAxj0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[886,110,109,2098,259],"class_list":["post-21876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-army","tag-firearms","tag-guns","tag-marines","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21877,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21876\/revisions\/21877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}