The first one is a sort of M27 qualification that some Twenty Nine Palms battalions participated in (3/4, 3/7), called the Designated Marksmanship Course for the M27. This qualification is completely separate from the Marine Corps standard Table 1 that consists of the annual rifle qualification all Marines have to complete once a year. In this case, M27 gunners from these two battalions worked on unknown distance target engagement from 200 meters out to 600 meters.
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Over the three-week course that ended Jan. 28, about a dozen Marines in two-man shooter-spotter teams from 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, and 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, honed their abilities to use the IAR to identify and engage targets up to 600 yards.

КМП испытывают новые плитники

и новую концепцию fire team вообще

А это вообще из серии "А на третий день Орлиный Глаз заметил, что у сарая одной стены не хватает..."

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