Apparently it's official

[larry marak]

Per daily content article March 12th 2015 Marine rifle squads in the new printing of Saipan have had their direct fire value lowered from 10 to 8. The Equinox Gold Club Journal allows us to downward adapt our first printing copies of Sapian. Marine veterans are encouraged to keep using the 10 fire power counters...once a Marine, always a Marine :-)