Our military adopting the Grendel?

[bwaites]

I live in the Eastern Washington desert. We have this little issue with volcanoes which blow up and toss silicate powder into the air every 100 years or so. It's so fine that it will sneak by some auto air filters.

I've never had a dust related jam, either. I've made my Grendel jam, but it took a lot of dirty ammo to do so. I ran a "run 'til it fails test" which I posted on the old board. I didn't clean it for something like 800 rounds before I got a FTF.

I don't understand the concerns with jams in todays versions of the AR. Vietnam era systems were compromised by poor ammo, poor cleaning, poor instruction, and lack of proper care. The guys were told they didn't even have to be cleaned, according to some of the Vietnam era vets I've talked to. They weren't even issued cleaning kits in some circumstances! We need to get over that concern, and move on. Decent maintenance and what we have learned over the last 50 years has fixed that issue!