WASHINGTON — The previous commander of NATO’s Resolute Assist mission and all U.S. forces in Afghanistan will be a part of Sig Sauer as a protection adviser, in response to an announcement from the corporate on Tuesday.
Former Gen. Scott Miller, who has additionally served as commander of Joint Particular Operations Command, is a veteran of quite a few conflicts, together with the Battle of Mogadishu and counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Normal Miller is an distinctive addition to our group and comes at one of the thrilling instances for our firm as we start the historic means of fielding the Subsequent Technology Squad Weapons with the U.S. Army,” Ron Cohen, president and CEO of Sig Sauer, mentioned in an announcement. “His expertise in close-quarters fight mixed along with his confirmed management capacity shall be invaluable to us.”
Miller joins Sig Sauer at a time when the corporate is tasked with constructing the Army’s Subsequent Technology Squad Weapon. The service introduced in April that the corporate was chosen to provide the NGSW, a weapon with 6.8mm cartridges that can exchange the M4 carbine and M249 Squad Computerized Weapon for shut fight models.
The contract for the rifle variants totaled $2.7 billion, in response to authorities paperwork. Sig Sauer additionally gained the handgun contract in 2017 to interchange the M9 Beretta, the Army’s pistol of selection for greater than 30 years. The offers will make Sig Sauer the supplier of the overwhelming majority of arms to shut fight forces and presumably particular operations forces.
Hiring Miller, who served within the tier-one Delta Particular Operations Detachment at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, may very well be geared toward encouraging SOCOM to select up the weapon system for its forces.
“Whereas I served on energetic responsibility I’ve at all times been a proponent of guaranteeing that our service members had the suitable deadly capabilities out there to them in an effort to safeguard our nationwide pursuits,” Miller, a West Level graduate, mentioned in an announcement.
Zamone “Z” Perez is an editorial fellow at Protection News and Navy Occasions. He beforehand labored at International Coverage and Ufahamu Africa, the place he helped produce podcasts. He’s a graduate of Northwestern College, the place he researched humanitarian intervention and atrocity prevention in his thesis. He could be discovered on Twitter @zamoneperez.
