Marine Corps Rifle Qualification Is Getting Its First Major Overhaul in More Than 100 Years
24 Feb 2021
Military.com | By Matthew Cox
Marine Corps marksmanship officials this week rolled out the final version of a new, more realistic rifle qualification course that will force Marines to put lethal hits on stationary and moving targets the same as they would in combat.
Beginning Oct. 1, all active-duty Marines and sailors assigned to Fleet Marine Force will qualify with the demanding new Annual Rifle Qualification, or ARQ -- a course of fire designed to assess how shooters use fundamental marksmanship principles to apply lethal force on modern targets with lethal zones marked on the chest and head.
"We are trying to replicate an operational environment where Marines are wearing their kit and they have to hit a human-sized and shaped target in an area that's going to have lethal effects on it," Col. Mark Liston, commander of Weapons Training Battalion at Quantico, Virginia, told reporters Tuesday.
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