dan lamothe recently returned from being im bedded with marine snipers in afghanistan. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> you reported scout snipers are frustrated with their capabilities of ammunition. what's the problem? >> they took me out for a journalist a pretty unique mission. kind of an overnight sniper mission. and their gripe is they have several rifles to choose from, and that they're sort of capability gaps in between them. 50 caliber rifle, the m-107 reaches out to 2,000-meter, 2,000 yards but not nearly as accurate. and the m-40, the kind of the typical 762 caliber rifle they have, it is accurate, but they can really only reach someone and actually knock someone down up to about 800 they said. >> right. and not get a kill which is what they're looking for. >> right. >> so what were some of the solutions that are out there that can fielded to these guys to solve their problem? >> one of the observations that they made in a position paper that they pushed their own chain of command is that this precision sniper rifle that the army and the mar