Why don't officers wear marksmanship badges?

Probably the same reason they don’t wear good-conduct medals: it’s expected that they are experts with their weapons just like it’s expected they conduct themselves professionally at all times.

Spending some time in the training room and seeing some of the scores from the quals I would be ashamed and not wear the badge either. It was enlightening to me that the rest of the infantry is hammered to “have” to shoot expert and then to see the score cards for a few of the officers in ours and neighboring units.

Never saw an officer ever actually qualify... they usually just threw a bunch of 9mm downrange and didn't hit a darned thing...

I always wore mine and it was a point pf honor to be expert in my individual weapon and qualified on every weapon in my infantry unit, I can not remember any platoon leader that did not qualify expert. I also served in non Infantry units and no one was particularly concerned with anything but basic qualification. I think referring to officers in general is too broad. I think when you talk to an individual soldier he\she ought to be absolutely confident you know what you are talking about. In the case of a logistician core expertise is different from an infantryman. I have been both and as a logistician no one cared how well I could shoot but very intrested in how well I understood OST (order ship time management)

I always saw it as a matter of honoring enlisted soldiers. By not wearing marksmanship badges I wasn’t competing with them, even though I shot expert (38/39 out if 40). The same logic applied in not wearing the schutzenschnur rope that they wore. THEY are on the ground and in front. They get the glory.

You answered your own question.... its because officers cant shoot LOL

I went up from enlisted to O1and up the line. I was proud of my Expert Badges with rifle and 45 cal. I wore them as an officer.

FWIW, I was Air Force, not Army, but every fellow officer I knew who earned the AF Small Arms Expert Ribbon wore it proudly on his/her service dress jacket.

I guess you guys forget there are other branches of the service out there. I was an officer in the Navy, qualified Expert on rifle and pistol, and wore both of those ribbons as well as the associated medals when in the relevant uniform. The Navy doesn't have the pizza box type thingy, but does have and does wear marksmanship badges, officer and enlisted. Have a fine Navy day, Shipmates!

As a former officer I can tell you that they do wear them; but I noticed the trend of only those earning Expert on their Dress Greens. Since ALL soldiers must earn 1 of the 3 rating in Rifle to even stay in after Graduation from their respective basic. The trend for non-combat officers to only have ever earned a Marksman in Rifle, feel inferior and often even ridiculed. This is a personal choice based on self assessed shortcoming. Rather then Stand Tall, Stand Proud they cower to NCO's and enlisted that have earned higher ratings than mere Marksman, given their own self entitlement, that only a college degree is needed to be a superior soldier...