Why don't officers wear marksmanship badges?

As an infantry officer, I was proud of my rifle and machine gun badges. Many of the awards that the Army gave me were for showing up, but the marksman badges and my Ranger tab were hard earned and I was proud to wear them.

I don't think it should be a requirement for officer's. I like that it was an option. I saw officer's that wore their marksmanship badge, but Many didn't. I wore my marksmanship badge when I was a 2Lt and 1Lt. Mainly because I didn't have didn't much else to wear on my uniform. As soon as i received other badges I stopped wearing it.

I earned the M16 and .45 cal expert badges while in the Army and those badges transferred over to the Navy, but there were no marksmanship badges; the Navy wears ribbons/medals instead. Always wore them as a Naval Officer. There weren't very many of us that were qualified, officer or enlisted.

Chaplains don't usually earn and wear marksmanship badges. AFAIK only the Navy precludes this: Secretary of the Navy Instruction 1730.7E, Religious Ministry within the Department of the Navy, states, “Chaplains are non-combatants. They cannot bear arms or seek weapons training in connection with their military duties nor will they seek weapons or warfare qualifications.”

Because they can't shoot well enough to earn one

Who the hell cares?

Navy Officers wore them when I was in. They qualify too at the same time.

Who would want a CO, Platoon Leader, or a anything O that could not hit a bull in the ass with a bass fiddle. Show me you can shoot, then you can command me. We aren't there for a party, are we? I wasn't that proud of my Marksman M-14 qualifying, but threw my shoulders back over my Expert M-16 qualifying. Officers should have to wear all identifiers like everyone else!

Sure, why not? Earn it, then wear it. Inspire the young troops.

I have never thought about that! Great point! I was a MP, 95B3V5H and I don’t think that I ever had saw an officer with marksmanship badges either.
Correction, I do remember a time when I saw a female officer wearing her marksmanship badges on the Class A uniform. And when she and another male officer were them again. I was stationed at Ft Moore (Ft Benning) back in 1987-1989. She was assigned to our 988th MP Company there. But after that, I didn’t remember seeing any other officers wearing them in Class A’s.