>>64442544
Certain aircrew get issued the GAU-5 takedown rifle and regular airmen get the M4. There was talk a few years ago about upgrading our M4s to a block III standard but all of the other branches ended up doing their own things with the M7 and M27 so we gave up on the rifles, but we're slowly getting Nightforce LPVOs as a result of that program so it kinda worked out.