Marines assigned to Echo Company 4th Reconnaissance Battalion carry rifles equipped with suppressors while conducting a patrol during a live fire exercise. (Staff Sgt. Ezekiel R. Kitandwe/Marine Corps ...

FORT SNELLING, Minn. — Rain or shine, you can count on the Memorial Rifle Squad (MRS), which was founded in 1979, to perform at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. It performs honors five days a week, ...

The Marines are sticking with the M27 while they “continue to monitor development” of the Army’s M7 Next Generation Squad Weapon rifle.

At 7:30 a.m. on a recent morning outside a maintenance building in a tucked away corner of Fort Snelling National Cemetery, the mournful tune of taps mingles with the roar of jets taking off and ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --The last survivor of the original Rifle Squad at Fort Snelling was laid to rest on Friday. World War II Navy veteran Charles Korlath recently received the Presidential Citizens ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The morning snow didn't stop some Minnesota veterans from honoring those who paid the ultimate sacrifice during the Attack on Pearl Harbor 80 years ago today. "Those are the ones we ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- On Veterans Day, WCCO took a look back at the life of one of the founders of the Fort Snelling Memorial Rifle Squad. George Weiss, 92, died in January, at his home and surrounded ...

The U.S. Army is looking for across-the-board replacements for the M4 and M249 SAW platforms with a pair of new rifles, the NGSW-R (for Rifle), and NGSW-AR (for Automatic Rifle). These replacements ...

Soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division this month became the first combat troops to receive the Army's new M110A1 Squad Designated Marksman Rifle. Army weapons officials fielded the new ...

The U.S. Army will buy new automatic infantry weapons starting in 2022, replacing the existing M4 carbine and M249 squad automatic weapon. The weapons will include new technology, particularly a new, ...