You are listening to the War on the Rocks podcast on strategy, defense, and foreign affairs.

My name is Ryan Evans, I'm the founder of War in the Rocks.

In this episode I have the opportunity to speak with four Marines about ongoing and

major changes in Marine Corps Small arms marksmanship focused on making the

individual marine more lethal than ever. The four Marines I spoke to are assigned

to weapons training battalion at Quantico Virginia. This battalion serves as the

Marine Corps's proponent for all facets of small arms combat marksmanship.

To help accomplish these missions, Weapons Training Battalion includes, for example, the famed Marine Corps shooting team,

which has been around for somewhere around 120 years

and comprises the best marksmen in the service

and some of the best marksmen in the world.

The command also includes the marksmanship program management section

which leads the services efforts

on all manner of small arms marksmanship doctrine, training, weapons, and equipment. the services, the changes that we discussed during this episode.

And finally, the command includes the precision marksmanship course, which focuses on teaching and scaling longer-range precision fires across the Marine Corps.

The Marines I spoke with during the podcast are leaders in these units, and they also

recently published a really important article about these changes in the Marine Corps

Gazette.

I linked to it in the show notes. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed having this conversation.

One quick but important note before we get started, the views you here expressed on this episode are not necessarily those of training and

education command the US Marine Corps the Department of Defense or any part of

the US government. My name is Captain Philip Williams. I'm a C. 53 pilot by

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