I submit that the problem is not necessarily the platform, nor the caliber, but rather "Big Army"... No hit on any of you guys in or out of uniform, BDUs, that is. As I've previously stated, the Army has looong history of throwing sick money at ridiculous weapons programs, Sergeant York, to name but one. It's all contract/kick back driven. That said, I do believe that the 6.8 has a niche. The Fifth Special Forces was working with several years back, but who knows what transpired there. As always, the folks on the ground know what they need. What we need, is to listen to them... That and not leave 80 billion dollars of it on the field of battle. Could it be that the same ones responsible for the waste in weapons research, are the same ones responsible for abandoning our equipment in Afghanistan?