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Pendleton Marines participate in annual rifle qualification - Pendleton Marines participate in annual rifle qualification

MC TIMES: Drastic changes coming to Marine Corps rifle qualification: Here’s what you need to know

“It will be more challenging,” Col. Hall, CO, Weapons Training Battalion. That’s because shooters will be qualifying as they’ll fight. They’ll wear combat gear, from helmet to body armor and shoot their assigned weapon, whether that’s an M4, M16 or M27. After years of feedback from marksmanship experts and operational commands across the Corps asking for a more realistic ― and shorter ― shooting qualification, a new experimental course of fire will be rolled out over the coming months. If approved by both the community of shooting experts and command all the way to the commandant, the plan is to implement the new annual rifle qualification by 2021.

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