Marine Corps Hones Moving Target Shooting Skills: Marine Corps Warfighting Lab officials demonstrated experimental training techniques for shooting moving targets, a battlefield skill that’s all but ignored in the service’s marksmanship training. If there is one lesson infantrymen have learned in the past decade of war, it’s that the enemy doesn’t stand still and wait to be shot. They sprint between houses and other available cover, often presenting as small a target as possible. It has always been a battlefield reality of modern warfare, yet Marine Corps and U.S. Army combat training continues to focus on outdated techniques that largely involve stationary targets. Now Marine Warfighting Lab officials, working with the Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, hope to change this by collecting data aimed at finding the best methods for effectively engaging realistic targets that move at speeds seen on the battlefield. The Sept. 16-27 experiment had a handful of Marine instructors from The Basic School here practicing a series of techniques for hitting moving targets while shooting from the prone, kneeling and standing positions with M4 carbines and the service’s M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 23:57:08 +0000
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