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Help yourself. That "relic" is a harder hitting weapon than most any of today's small arms. Further, how many rounds can you carry for this OICW thing? Not a lot, I'd bet. And if you need batteries to support it, forget it. I want NO battery operated toys in the field. Ask any combat Marine what he'd prefer. In no particular order they would be:
shotgun for close-in work
Blooper (hand-held artillery)
M1, M14
.45 Colt
Bayonet
E-tool
Hand grenades
Radio (for calling in REAL arty)

In other words, weapons that will stop an enemy as far out as possible or, failing that, rugged and simple stuff to destroy him at close range (we used e-tools a lot for REALLY close work)...

No, it is a relic. The round is indistinguishable from .308 and I'm not even going into all of the other problems with it. Get one from the CMP and bring as many of your friends to qualify for one. Shoot Garand matches with it, play with it, collect them and learn to identify the rare ones. When it comes time to something seriously, use any other battle rifle because the others have left the Garand in the dust.