Analysis of Marine Corps Small Arms Proficiency with Emphasis on Requalifications

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to determine to what extent that an individual's marksmanship performance is degraded after a one, two, three, or four plus year gap in his small arms weapon requalification history. The study reviews the physiological aspects of proficient shooting and the effects of the environment on marksmanship shooting. The analysis was performed on the complete qualification history of 1,694 U. S. Marine Corps officer and enlisted personnel who had qualified with a pistol or rifle three or more times during their Marine Corps career. The results of the analysis indicated that there was no statistical degradation in shooting performance for both the officer and enlisted populations over gaps of one or more years when firing the rifle. In the case of the pistol, there was no statistical degradation in performance for the officer population with a gap of one or more years in shooting history; however, the enlisted population shows statistical evidence of degradation in performance after a three or more year gap in shooting history.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA104056

Entities

People

  • Charles Edward Walters

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Degradation
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Environment
  • Information Science
  • Marine Corps
  • Marksmanship
  • Operations Research
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Qualifications
  • Regression Analysis
  • Small Arms
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Naval Personnel Management
  • ballistics.