Posted on Sep 15, 2019
How are the new marksmanship qualifications going to affect promotion points?
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I love the new system for marksmanship. Having said that I have a few questions. Are they gonna allow reshoots malfunctions that required more than remedial action? Can we use our own magazines so that we know they are good. (You really are not going to convince me that it’s my pmcs when It only happens with one magazine) If not are we going to to change the the amount of points someone can get?
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With the newer magazines, it should be quite rare for malfunctions to occur unless weapons and/or magazines are being poorly maintained. Weapons AND magazines both need to be inspected frequently. I would also recommend using all your magazines during both zeroing and practice to see if there is one that is having issues. If you have a bad magazine, you should be marking them and turning them in for replacement (so they don't end up back in the rotation 6 months later). There are a few methods for marking bad magazines... paint pen works well, or my personal favorite - take a sledgehammer to it (it definitely won't make it back into the rotation that way).
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I would imagine that your first concern would be valid. As to using your own magazines; Would you carry, or have access to them, when deployed?
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SSG(P) (Join to see)
I’ll be honest with you. My last deployment I was the sog and did not bring my personal magazines. However I did check my magazines every changeover. I wasn’t risking a failure to feed or double feed if I could. I see what your saying but when your using equipment issued to you that you sign for it you treat it as if it was your own.
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SPC John Decker
SSG(P) (Join to see) - It's always a good thing to make sure your equipment is in good working order. To do otherwise is just lazy.
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