So far, the Marine Corps has validated the ARQ with scores from 226 Marines across the force who went through the course in fiscal 2019. The Marine Corps marksmanship community drafted the new ARQ course of fire in October 2018 at the annual Combat Marksmanship Symposium, recognizing that “it was an operational necessity to focus on lethality instead of marksmanship,” Hall said. “It’s a more difficult test, there is no doubt about it,” Hall said.
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Marines will qualify in full combat gear, firing at an array of stationary and moving targets from distances ranging from 15 to 500 yards.
If approved in 2021, the ARQ will consist of a three-day course that involves day and night qualification against modern silhouette targets with lethal zones in the chest and head, rather than outdated bullseye-style targets. The new scoring standards for the Corps’ marksman, sharpshooter and expert badges are part of an ambitious plan to replace the current Annual Rifle Training (ART) qualification course with the new Annual Rifle Qualification (ARQ) – a challenging new course of fire that will force Marines in the operational force to draw on the basic marksmanship skills they learned in initial-entry training and apply them in a realistic assessment designed to measure how lethal they really are. Howard Hall, commander of the Weapons Training Battalion at Quantico, Virginia, told. “ Marines are going to have to truly earn those coveted crossed rifles that indicate an expert marksman,” Col.
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