Wow, this thread took a turn sideways.
How do you know they are not. They are issuing MK6 1-6 scopes out now. Its only a matter of time before more and more guys get them.
Pat
Below my name is my actual former rank when I was active duty along with my MOS (Scout Sniper), and I'll add 0311, 0369, and 8531 to that as well. It's not some arbitrary "I post a lot" assignment. I've been there, instructed and led them for a decade and a half, and I know what is suitable for issue and what is not. I have a Mark 6, got a CQBSS as well, lots of experience with ACOGs and Aimpoints along with many, many other optics. I instructed on the ranges at Parris Island for two years, ran a Scout Sniper Platoon as the Chief Scout and Platoon Sergeant for another three years on top of my two years as a Team Leader, followed by CAAT Section Leader/Platoon Sergeant for another two. I know a thing or two about equipping and training Marines at different levels. Top that off with I was that Line Company LCpl grunt with a Leatherman and half a clue but not a whole one. I've also dealt with those Marines that couldn't read a analog watch correctly or tell the difference between HE and illum when we are calling in a fire mission. That makes shit real interesting...
Tooled adjustments don't have any place in the line companies, especially when they require itty-bitty hex wrenches. They will be lost, they will be substituted, the scopes will be fucked. If it requires anything smaller than a 1/4" wrench or a flat head/casing to dial it in, it's wrong. I've had school trained Scout Snipers fuck up their Unertl's set screws by over torquing or stripping the hex screw. Perhaps if a company such as TT can introduce their tool less adjustments into a suitable optic it will be something that will be field-able across the board, but the current crop of scopes aren't ready for prime time issue FMF wide. I may change my tune when I get home and tinker with my new Vortex Razor II, we'll see.
Like I've said before, in this thread and others, the 1-6x and similar optics are superior to the fixed 4x optics, but that doesn't mean the 4x have lost their place. Durability and simplicity are the key and reticle patterning for distance is far more important than for wind holds for the infantryman, but I will say it would be nice to see lead for movers marks as those fuckers don't hold still. The ACOG and Aimpoints are well known for being some of the toughest optics out there, if not THE toughest, and yet grunts still crush them in the conditions they are required to operate in. As the old saying goes, lock a grunt in an empty padded room and give him two ball bearings, and when you come back in thirty minutes he will have broken one and lost the other...
The competition circuits are a great place for improving marksmanship, increasing shot speed and developing shoot-and-move techniques, but it's hardly a grinder for durability testing. They never start a stage with an amphibious landing from Zodiacs or Amtracks, they never deploy out the back of an Sea Stallion via 40ft fastrope onto a three story rooftop, wading/falling into a shit filled canal, and they don't spend eight hours in the back of an MRAP bouncing around shit ass roads on the way to the starting point. They also never stand a CGI inspection where rifles are blasted with every chemical known to the barracks in the effort of getting q-tip clean, used in close order drill at the latest Division/Regimental change of command (hold on while we make sure everyone looks the same so take that cowboy shit off and put on a carrying handle), or slung and carried all day-every day for a seven month deployment to the shower, shitter and DFAC on top of real field use.
Gun games are just that - games. They should never be confused with each other.