[/QUOTE]Where to place your focus
If you really care about this mess, and know what M855 and M80 are, but don't know what PLDC, BNCOC, IOBC, or ANCOC are, you need to fix yourself first before making any further comments about how to fix small aspects of a cartridge that won't matter if the leadership can't even run basic marksmanship training that is effective, focused, and truly improves their soldiers' hit-percentages. Hint: The leadership can't shoot well themselves, so how can they teach it?[/QUOTE] From LRRPF52
+1. Although, some of them (or should I say us?) can shoot and/or understand how to train better shooters, just comes down to competing priorities for the higher HQs. To become a better marksman takes lots of trigger time…key word being TIME. Something I have never had enough of prior to a deployment.
Your average knuckle dragger is expected to be a jack of all trades on the modern battlefield – well versed in first aid, language and culture, negotiating skills, call for fire, sustainment operations, high tech communications equipment, cross-trained on 3-6 different weapons in addition to his primary weapon, etc, etc. All of these completing training requirements will weigh on a commander’s mind when he is allocating time for pre-deployment training and trying to balance what is required to deploy with ensuring his subordinates have a little time with their families before going overseas to a hostile environment...a hostile environment they may not return from.
If you really care about this mess, and know what M855 and M80 are, but don't know what PLDC, BNCOC, IOBC, or ANCOC are, you need to fix yourself first before making any further comments about how to fix small aspects of a cartridge that won't matter if the leadership can't even run basic marksmanship training that is effective, focused, and truly improves their soldiers' hit-percentages. Hint: The leadership can't shoot well themselves, so how can they teach it?[/QUOTE] From LRRPF52
+1. Although, some of them (or should I say us?) can shoot and/or understand how to train better shooters, just comes down to competing priorities for the higher HQs. To become a better marksman takes lots of trigger time…key word being TIME. Something I have never had enough of prior to a deployment.
Your average knuckle dragger is expected to be a jack of all trades on the modern battlefield – well versed in first aid, language and culture, negotiating skills, call for fire, sustainment operations, high tech communications equipment, cross-trained on 3-6 different weapons in addition to his primary weapon, etc, etc. All of these completing training requirements will weigh on a commander’s mind when he is allocating time for pre-deployment training and trying to balance what is required to deploy with ensuring his subordinates have a little time with their families before going overseas to a hostile environment...a hostile environment they may not return from.