Rifle & Carbine Marksmanship

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TC 3-22.9

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Feeding, Chambering, Locking, Firing, Unlocking, Extracting, Ejecting, and Cocking.

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The soldier

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Selector on safe, No magazine, chamber is empty.

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Selector on safe, Magazine in, chamber is empty.

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Selector on safe, Magazine in, chamber is loaded.

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Selector on Fire, Magazine in, chamber is loaded.

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25 meters

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The 12 to 18 inch spherical area near the soldier's chin where the majority of weapon manipulations take place.

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Semi aka semi automatic, Automatic, and Burst.

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Preliminary Marksmanship Instruction

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4 centimeters

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Simple and rapid action taken to clear a stoppage without diagnosing what caused it.

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Deliberate actions taken once immediate action fails to diagnose and correct what caused the stoppage.

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Breathing, trigger squeeze, steady position, and proper sight picture.

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1 60th of a degree. It is used to measure adjustments in aim for the purposes of zeroing.

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Approximately 1 inch.

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Approximately 6 inches.

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500 meters

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600 meters

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Zeroing is aligning the sight of the weapon with the weapon’s barrel.

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Firing tight shot groups and placing those groups in the same location. Required before making accurate zeroing adjustments.

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Live fire exercise

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Back Up Iron Sights. To be used if the primary optic fails.

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Any failure of a weapon to complete its cycle of operation.

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SPORTS

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Slap, pull, observe, release, tap, squeeze

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Slap the magazine, pull the charging handle, observe the ejection of a round or cartridge, release the charging handle without riding it forward, tap the forward assist, squeeze the trigger.

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Slap, rack, reassess. Slap the magazine, rack the charging handle, and refire.

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Reduce weapon signature and reduce barrel lift.

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Overmatch is the Soldier applying their learned skills, employing their equipment, leveraging technology, and applying the proper force to create an unfair fight in favor of the Soldier.

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Night vision uses infrared light, which humans can't see, to illuminate objects. Thermal imaging detects heat signatures.

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Laser Marksmanship Training System

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Engagement Skills Trainer 2000

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To group and zero faster, and give additional training and familiarization with the weapon.

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The m4 is a 5.56 millimeter, magazine fed, shoulder fired, gas operated, air cooled carbine.

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7.5 Lbs

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3600 meters

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2,970 feet per second

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Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight

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Failure to feed, failure to fire, failure to extract, and failure to eject.

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Engage only if engaged or ordered to engage.

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Engage only if target is positively identified as enemy.

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Engage targets not positively identified as friendly.

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Because the line of sight is a straight line, and the arc that the bullet travels intersects that line twice.

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Internal, External, and Terminal.

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The physics of what happens to a round inside the m4, before it leaves the barrel.

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The physics of what happens to a round as it flies through the air, from leaving the barrel until it touches the target.

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The physics of what happens to a round after it touches a target and tears through it, deflects off of it, or flattens against it.

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1. Preliminary Marksmanship Instruction (PMI). 2. Downrange feedback range firing. 3. Field firing. 4. Advanced Rifle Marksmanship (ARM). 5. Advanced optics, lasers, and iron sights. Use the mnemonic PDFAA