Marines make do with refurb’d ACOGs

[Talyn]

Michigan-based Trijicon recently picked up an eight-figure contract from the Marine Corps Logistics Command.

The new $20,702,792 contract stipulates that Trijicon will provide “all materials, labor, equipment, facilities, and necessary repair or replacement parts required to inspect, diagnose, test, and restore RCOs to a fully mission-capable condition.” The work will be performed at Trijicon’s Wixom, Michigan, with an expected completion date of June 2030.

Trijicon will also rebuild "Civi" ACOGs.

Marines make do with refurb’d ACOGs

Michigan-based Trijicon recently picked up an eight-figure contract from the Marine Corps Logistics Command. The Marines widely use the Trijicon 4×32 TA31 ACOG as the service’s Rifle Com…

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[HansGruber]

I would think that it should mostly be a refinish, replace the tritium lamps, and maybe some lenses, for the most part.

Then again, the Marines have been known to play pretty hard with their toys…

 

[bc22wm]

After years of design and redesign, testing and retesting by draftsmen, engineers and what not it will eventually make its way to some grunt that will break it or make the damn thing work like it should.
The little key that turned on and off the MILES gear system was a couple hundred buck each. Some bright star grunt private with a GED figured out that a fired M60/308 case fit perfectly in the keyhole. A bit of dirt to take up space, melt the plastic spoon from a MRE pack into the case mouth, insert into miles gear, let cool, remove. You now have a MILES master key. BTY, MRE the only deal the military ever got. Three lies for the price of one. Meals Ready to Eat.

 

[Warrior9(Ret)]

After years of design and redesign, testing and retesting by draftsmen, engineers and what not it will eventually make its way to some grunt that will break it or make the damn thing work like it should.
The little key that turned on and off the MILES gear system was a couple hundred buck each. Some bright star grunt private with a GED figured out that a fired M60/308 case fit perfectly in the keyhole. A bit of dirt to take up space, melt the plastic spoon from a MRE pack into the case mouth, insert into miles gear, let cool, remove. You now have a MILES master key. BTY, MRE the only deal the military ever got. Three lies for the price of one. Meals Ready to Eat.

Yep. Homemade “God” keys.

 

[UC_Guy 1971]

After years of design and redesign, testing and retesting by draftsmen, engineers and what not it will eventually make its way to some grunt that will break it or make the damn thing work like it should.
The little key that turned on and off the MILES gear system was a couple hundred buck each. Some bright star grunt private with a GED figured out that a fired M60/308 case fit perfectly in the keyhole. A bit of dirt to take up space, melt the plastic spoon from a MRE pack into the case mouth, insert into miles gear, let cool, remove. You now have a MILES master key. BTY, MRE the only deal the military ever got. Three lies for the price of one. Meals Ready to Eat.

Air Force Security Police/Security Forces... we did the same with a spent 5.56 blank round. LOL

 

[USMC6094]

Well, consider the up to now contract alternative.

Until this NONE of them were refurbished, as stated by the previous contract, the RCOs were sent in, and destroyed, not repaired, refurbished, or otherwise.

And yeah, we're rough with our gear, but that weeds out the JUNK. If it can survive US, lesser services won't come close to wearing it out.

 

[Talyn]

The previous contract which ran from 2020-2025 repaired existing legacy ACOGs, and the new contract continues that process..

 

[Talyn]

I have 5 and a couple that need the tritium renewed but it's a low priority to send them in.

 

[USMC6094]

The previous contract which ran from 2020-2025 repaired existing legacy ACOGs, and the new contract continues that process..

Well, I've been out of the loop for a while when it comes to Trijicon, but any ACOG you see with a NIIN on it(if it has a Bible verse number ahead of said NIIN),especially a truly worn one, missed its destruction cause it was "over looked" and surveyed......

 

[Warrior9(Ret)]

We started having issues with our M68 sights so we finally got the GWOT money release prior to our deployment and got ACOGS. Thank goodness we had time to hit the ranges and get everyone right with the new sights before we crossed the pond.
They had a contact team in-country so we often did one for one exchanges for the ones we busted up

 

[bc22wm]

Air Force Security Police/Security Forces... we did the same with a spent 5.56 blank round. LOL

Maybe it was a 5.56. It was 40+ years ago. The old memory aint what it once was.

 

[Warrior9(Ret)]

Maybe it was a 5.56. It was 40+ years ago. The old memory aint what it once was.

I inquired some old keys and filled off the notch. Worked like a charm. Same thing the OPFOR use in NTC, JRTC, and Hohenfels

 

[3L120]

Marines have been doing with hand me downs for near a century or more. M-16s in the Nam were Army cast offs. Along with Korean War flak jackets and M1941 packs.