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Originally Posted by Direwolf18
It is worth noting that the author is a retired soldier and may just have a preference for the older gun, and not the new fangled thing. Its not uncommon to see soldiers be hesitant about entrusting their lives to new pieces of equipment that's quality and reliability are yet to be proven. A perfect example would be the M1 to the M-16 transition. Initially a lot of the older soldiers HATED the M-16. Not only did it pack a lot less kick, (it was called a pea shooter) It also had a tendency to foul up and jam.
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Technically I think the transition went
M1-M14-M16
While that COULD be a reasoning behind it, considering that they're not just fighting against regular human type sized enemies, there could be plenty of motivation to bring something with a heavier round.
The transition to lighter assault rifle rounds happened under the context that
-An unarmored man hit by 5.56mm NATO is just as likely to be made a casualty as one hit by 7.62mm NATO
and
-Modern firefights are often determined by volume of suppression fire than aimed shots.