New Rifle Qualification and Standards for the Army?

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by frostfire

Outstanding post!

If fully implemented, I have no doubt we would steal the phrase Rifleman from the Marines. Imagine that, every soldier is a rifle man. The jossing will never get old. I spoke to a Marine E4 recently who said he has NEVER used irons from boot camp all the way to his current assignment. Yea, perhaps the Army will get it right after all these years.

That phrase rung a bell that led to... what, 14 years ago when GEN Schoomaker was CSA?

[1stindoor]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

But you’re not pissed off……….

...or a vice president for some asshole corporation that sends you VA mortgage refinancing requests...

I get pissed off every 2 months when that envelope comes in the mail.

[frostfire]

"In our research we found some things. Our weapons aren’t bad for what we are asking them to do. All of you fired issued weapons from five meters out to 600 meters. The ammunition is good enough for what we are asking it to do. You guys know this as you got hits. If the weapons and ammo aren’t the problem, What is?
Is it the caliber of Solider? If that were it, it wouldn’t cover 40 years of marginal performance
Is it the number of rounds we fire? Could be in some cases but if SFC Chain and the cadre had simply said here is 100,000 rounds blast away without any teaching would you guys have seen the improvement you made the past few weeks?
We decided that is was WHAT we were saying and how we were saying it."

https://ashhessblog.wordpress.com/20...rainer-course/
The heart and brain behind TC 3-22.9
He sent me the draft and I was impressed. Didn't need much feedbacks at all.
I have high hopes and faith that slowly but surely the evidence-based practice will permeate through big army


p.s. good tips on dry fire...good luck having disinterested joes/nco's/O's do it during PMI though
https://armarksman.files.wordpress.c...and-drills.pdf

[Badger52]

Thanks for the MMTC speech link.