Qualifying scores with combat optics to count

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Qualifying scores with combat optics to count
By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Sep 26, 2008 18:00:08 EDT

OCEANSIDE, Calif. — Starting Wednesday, Marines heading to the range for their annual rifle qualification will have to pack extra gear.

Marines shooting Table 1 and Table 2 will qualify only if they shoot with the Rifle Combat Optic, provided their commands have fielded the aiming device. All aggregate scores, whether shot with the optic or iron sights, will count, and these will be entered into the Marine Corps Total Force System database.

This latest change to the Marine Corps Combat Marksmanship Program — announced Sept. 22 in Marine administrative message 529/08 — takes effect Oct. 1.

Shooters will have to use the Rifle Combat Optic and associated modular attachments, including laser aiming device — AN/PEQ-2A, AN/PEQ-15 or AN/PEQ-16 — and vertical foregrip, along with the rifle sling their units issued them.

“The intent is to allow Marines to train and qualify with the primary sighting system and sling system to gain more confidence with the equipment they will be deploying with,” officials said in the MarAdmin. Marines assigned to units that have not fielded the optics will have to shoot using traditional iron sights, according to Chief Warrant Officer 4 Vincent Pope, marksmanship doctrine and programs manager at Weapons Training Battalion at Quantico, Va.


Rest of article at: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2008/09/marine_rifleoptics_092608w/%2e



uhc comment: ". . . provided their commands have fielded the aiming device." :wtf:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Well, I doubt...

You are going to find too many units that are normally rear echelon or support role units that are going to have combat optics. More a matter of Jarhead Economics than anything else.