I am a RIFLEMAN !!

[Puffer]

I am a RIFLEMAN !!

[BEAVERMAN]

No your not!!!!!!!! your a Trojan Horse!

[Winter Hawk]

RifleMAM???  Should that not be an "N" at the end, or am I missing something?

~Kees~

[Hawken]

Likewise!

20111204180529!Distinguished_Rifle_Badge by Sharps Man, on Flickr

[Ohio Joe]

Likewise 



I also carry a second Marksmanship badge ("Sharpshooter" for the M16/203 Granade Launcher")

Wow,,, that's been 45 years 4 months ago... Where's the time go...


 

[Nessmuk]

I'm  not going to even bring up Marksmanship  Medals in the Air Force. I know they're  a joke compared to Army and Marine medal requirements. I was awarded 3 for M-16, .38 Revolver and 9 mm Semi-Auto. Just saying.

[Puffer]

Mine from 1961

[Bigsmoke]

IIRC, I think my rifleman's badge said something like, "Is vaguely aware of which end of rifle to put against shoulder."  It's  true, I didn't try too hard to get a good score on the rifle range.  And so it goes.  If I recall correctly, I shot at the 50 and 100 yard silhouettes from the hip.  I think the sargent told me I had a bad attitude.  Probably so.

[Puffer]

IIRC, I think my rifleman's badge said something like, "Is vaguely aware of which end of rifle to put against shoulder."  It's  true, I didn't try too hard to get a good score on the rifle range.  And so it goes.  If I recall correctly, I shot at the 50 and 100 yard silhouettes from the hip.  I think the sargent told me I had a bad attitude.  Probably so.

We qualified In 1961, the course of fire was 10 rds slow fire standing @ 100, 10 rds rapid fire sitting @ 200, 10 rds. prone rapid @ 300 and 10 slow fire @ 500
Also shot the  We later did a "Transition Firing Course" with pop-ups at various distances from 50 to 100 or so yards. The official ammo count was probably around 40 or so rounds.

[Winter Hawk]

I did the pop-up targets at Fort Richardson with the National Guard, around 1994, IIRC.  Had a ball shooting out to 200 meters, fired 40 rounds and had NO misses.  Then they had us lying on a berm with our gas masks on, shooting at the same silhouette at 15 meters.  After my first round I was dialed in, I counted the seconds from when the target went down to when it popped back up and squeezed the trigger.  Did the same for night firing.  Then the paper work for my marksman badge disappeared so I never got my attaboy.  Of course they also lost all record of 9 years in the Guard, just had my active duty Navy time from the '60s.  I gave them my LESs and one of the guys was able to resurrect all my time, but a year later they did the same thing and I said "adios"!  The Alaska governor had taken our boats away and given them to the Washington Guard so there wasn't any reason for me to hang around anymore, anyway.

Sure wish I had gotten that badge, though! 

~Kees~

[Ohio Joe]

We had the pop up targets at Ft. Jackson in the summer of '74... I liked them...

I also remember on the "night fire course" (where we were indoctrinated to learning the three round burst on Full Auto of our M-16),,, all squads of our Platoon was to advanced in line under flares... When they popped up (in our line of fire) we were to shoot 'em..... Yes sir, I also remember our Drill Sgt. telling us, "if anyone gets a'head of the advancing line the only soul we'd see when looking in a mirror would be the soul of his boot stuck so far up our ass!!! And you know what, we believed him!!!

The night fire course did not count towards our qualification score - it was merely for combat training to familiarize us with such things that we might find ourselves involved in.

[Spotted Bull]

I'm  not going to even bring up Marksmanship  Medals in the Air Force. I know they're  a joke compared to Army and Marine medal requirements. I was awarded 3 for M-16, .38 Revolver and 9 mm Semi-Auto. Just saying.

I was awarded for 40 out of 40 on M-16, M-60 and 9 mm. It was interesting to me that in order to qualify on the M-16, an SP had to hit 35 out of 40, but the Civil Engineering Squadron had to hit 36 out of 40 to qualify... plus we had about 5 times as many weapons as the sp's did.

[Ohio Joe]

I'm  not going to even bring up Marksmanship  Medals in the Air Force. I know they're  a joke compared to Army and Marine medal requirements. I was awarded 3 for M-16, .38 Revolver and 9 mm Semi-Auto. Just saying.

Nessmuk, Marksmanship is Marksmanship, no matter what branch of service you're in. And had it not been for a damn good Pilot on a C-130 Transport when we were coming back State side from Germany, my and the rest of our Platoon along with the Crew of that plane would have had a final resting place in the Atlantic Ocean. The good Lord was with us that night... So no matter what the Air Force Marksmanship program consist of, I for one can certainly vouch for their knowledge of the air and getting us home safely. That's a mighty important mission... My thanks to the USAF!!!

[Nessmuk]

Thanks, Joe and Bull. I was assigned to an A-10 Squadron right after Desert Storm and our ready room was plastered with Thanks from Army and Marine units. Everything from Letters of Appreciation  to postcards from family members. Truly, we are brothers in arms.

[Spotted Bull]

I grew up around the A-10! My dad was an engine mechanic and worked for Northrup developing an engine monitoring system. I love the Warthog!