Marines see need for 'assistant squad leader' to use new tech

By Justin Doubleday / August 17, 2016 at 10:15 AM
TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA -- The Marine Corps wants to push a range of technologies down to its infantry squads, and the service believes an "assistant squad leader" may be needed to successfully employ the new systems. During a recent Marine Air-Ground Task Force Integrated Experiment here at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, a company-sized landing team was outfitted with over 40 new and experimental technologies, including weaponized ground robots, ISR-gathering quad-copters and command-and-control Android tablets. The Marines used...

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