Having drill sergeants and unit NCOs instruct marksmanship with no additional formal training or proven, higher-level experience is like having second graders teach first grade, simply because they graduated first grade.
Teaching Military Marksmanship
May 10, 2016
MilitaryMarksman Marksmanship Qualification, qualification 4 Comments
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May 11, 2016 @ 03:00:59
That’s a good analogy. But it goes farther than that. In Florida, all L/E firearms instructors have to complete formal claases to become one. The training is very good. But, most police instructors never desire to go past being a Range Safety Officer. They don’t actually desire to teach. It boils down to this: the highly motivated instructors have that desire etched on their hearts.
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May 12, 2016 @ 08:02:02
>>> most police instructors never desire to go past being a Range Safety Officer. They don’t actually desire to teach.
Excellent point. This goes well with competitive shooting. A person motivated to test and improve skills in an open format has that desire etched on their hearts.
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May 13, 2016 @ 06:13:47
Speaking of military marksmanship, the new rifle/carbine FM just dropped last night: https://rdl.train.army.mil/catalog-ws/view/100.ATSC/492701D5-25E9-40A7-9498-74C22831F268-1463059585416/TCx3-22.9.pdf
One thing that stood out right away is that it says in two places that trigger finger placement should be natural, since people have different hand sizes. Now where have I heard that before? Oh right, SARG, Kyle Defoor, Pat Mcnamara… Glad to see it finally make it into the official literature!
Still skimming through it to see what else is changed in there.
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May 13, 2016 @ 08:02:01
Cutting edge shooting technique and ideas that will be adopted by top private trainers and special operations a few years from now can be found in competition circles today. Big Army will adopt in a few decades later. Any “new” material in TC 3-22.9 was widely understood and used in the competitive communities decades ago.
This has been the trend since the mid 1800s when the Industrial Revolution made it practical to issue rifled firearms to the masses.
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