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Puuloa Range Training Facility; web sling; VCAS; Vickers Sling; M16A4 service rifle; M4 carbine rifle; three-point sling

Slings no more: MCB Hawaii to replace obsolete web slings March 27, 2015 — Since first qualifying with their rifles at boot camp and constantly marching around the parade deck, Marines become familiar with the web sling, or parade sling. Even in the fleet, some units only have the web sling available for annual rifle training; however, the web sling’s days are numbered. By July 1, all Marine Corps Base Hawaii subordinate and tenant commands will be required to possess either the three-point sling or the vigorous combat application sling, otherwise known as the VCAS, or “Vickers” sling. MORE