hold up
"The prototype 6.8mm NGSW-R will include a sling, flash hider, suppressor, cleaning kit, flash hider/suppressor removal tool, and quantities of magazines required to provide a minimum of 210 stowed rounds."
210
Let's presume that comes out to 6 mags, rather than the oddball number of 7
210/6 = 35

35 rounds per? If true I can get behind that

No

7 mags I think

6 on you 1 in the gun

Depends on whether "stowed" means on carrier or 6 + 1 as you say

I know because I do it every day

You don't have to check anything

It's not difficult

You have to check soldier

Always

I can probably do it faster than you can have a clean shave

Hmm so do you gas your own soldiers to make sure they shaved?

No you can see they have no beard

Beard doesn't interfere anyway. Argument invalid.

Beard also is only aesthetic and unnecessary

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/05/08/armys-next-squad-weapon-will-fire-a-never-before-seen-ammo-combination/

"The 6.8mm round is the offspring of a project formerly known as the Enhanced Rifle Cartridge Program that put together Special Operations Command, the Army Marksmanship Unit and Remington Arms to create an alternative to the 5.56mm round currently in use across the force."

So are dress uniforms

Medals, patches, all that

Hell even ranks

Wow. So they finished evaluation of their cartridges ahead of schedule, and they developed something new together

I'm genuinely surprised

Patches and ranks help with identification

Dress uniform is old school erb at a glance

At least the marksmanship unit was in on it

O and SOC

Maybe they do know what they are up too

Why would you need to identify whether someone is in the 101st Airborne, 1st Armored etc? You don't. It's just for looks, unit pride etc

If it was ever important to know someone's affiliation you just ask them

Yeah Remington too. This all leads me to believe that we may actually be looking at a miracle

Telling the unit at a glance matters more than purely aesthetic beards

But since they now say they're not going to use brass... we likely will have to replace our ARs

Beards are like tattoos

the plot thickens

Could just learn to use a radio, map, know where your people are, etc

Completely unnecessary

Patches are like tattoos

Same for dress uniforms

Except telling engineers from infantry is valuable

Rank is unnecessary. You can identify purely with billets. Soldier, team leader, section leader, squad leader, and so on