The point is to maintain your focus on the front sight, the WHOLE time. It's normal for the target and rear sight to blur out of focus, but untrained shooters often change their point of focus to the target when they fire. It's a natural instinct to want to see what you're shooting at, but you have to train yourself not to lose focus on the front sight.

I love 1980's gear lol and the good old battle M-16

Start by snapping in for hrs and hrs and hrs....😉

Real life lesson, as a squad leader my job is to not to engage enemies myself but to see the "big picture" and direct my squad's fire. It's a hard habit to break, directing fire to my fire team leaders instead of just shooting myself. Not something you're trained to do. USMC 3/5 88-92

The old marine uniforms are better than the new ones.

Rifle pistol shotgun. It doesn't fucking matter. Shooting is shooting and fundamentals are fundamentals Outstanding video!

I Qualed with M-14...Sharpshooter...Great weapon...wish I had the Civilian version...June 69'...Platoon 141...Semper Fi

It is many years since I left the military so many things have obviously changed, not just in the USA but here in the United Kingdom also. I served for 24 years and I was never a good shot, just good enough to pass the annual weapons handling and skills tests, by comparison my son was an excellent shot, and, although he served after I retired, couldn’t understand why, given the fact that we always used a weapon fitted with a 4x optical sight, I couldn’t hit a cows arse with a banjo. Perhaps if I was,like him, on the front line, I would have paid more attention to the instructors advice and tried harder to employ the basic fundamentals of marksmanship. Oh well all water under the bridge now, I never liked guns anyway, I saw them as an evil necessity and not part of the real reason or objective of my position, don’t get me wrong, I am not anti gun, nor would I have ever even have contemplated refusing to do my duty if it was necessary, but thankfully for me, not my son, I was never in that position. The proudest pictures I have of my son are of him at his passing out parade, and of him in Afghanistan, all suited and booted, that might sound a bit crazy, but I was proud of him for serving our country, and more importantly supporting his comrades in arms from around the world and even more importantly his friends and colleagues. Thanks for sharing this interesting and informative film. 👍

“The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine and his Rifle.” R.Lee Ermey GYSGT. U.S Marine Corps.

Holy shit if I was ever taught by this video or this narrator I would most definitely be able to take a nap. I could only make myself watch 1/2 of this video.

04:48 Full metal jacket-----Private Pyle

Breath control is no longer expressed in training. Now it’s referred to as natural respiratory pause. Here’s why, if a shooter is not made to think about breathing he will naturally shoot during his natural respiratory pause. On the other hand if the shooter is told to watch his breathing he will and thus he will not be focused on what’s most important: consistent sight alignment and smooth trigger control.

This is really great info.

Excellent footage find! Thank you. OOH-RAH!

3 time Expert USMC 3/5 '05-'10

It could be interesting to compare this video to similar ones in use in olther armies (british Army, Bundeswehr, Israeli Defence Force, Armée de Terre...) in order to see if there are differences

@cygil1 training helps, but ya your right, hence when in general it takes 30,000 round just to kill one enemy during the last 40 years

I couldn't understand anything the narrator is saying. I thought I was having a stroke.

I wonder what this video would look like when updated for an ACOG?

@Ga5524 I agree 100%, but the new camouflage utility's offer better protection & look more comfortable. The old tropical uniform was sharp. the khaki's, when starched looked good too. The old wool overcoats were much better looking than the synthetic blended one's that are now issued.

@zela9999 I hear ya! The khaki uniforms are necessary for desert operations.

Trigger finger placement is entirely incorrect in this video. Not in the crease, and not on the tip. It's not "wherever you feel is natrual".

I love the music in this. Wish it wasn't "ducked" or mixed at a louder level. I wonder if the master copy sounds like this

It's been about 20 years for me but it looks like the Marines in this video have way too much finger on the trigger. Maybe I'm over analyzing the video.

Re pops1085. The reality is you have to 'flick' focus, from tgt to front sight. The eye does this in a very short amount of time. The issue starts at initial trg or zeroing, where soldiers are asked to aim at a specific mark on a tgt up to 100m away. As a result, they are drawn to focus on the aiming mark, and forget about correct sight alignment and aiming. The aiming mark is relevant to have a datum point, but coaches mustn't forget the basics!

OORAHHHH SEMPER FI!

Always loved the M16A2.

Is that msgt Julia Watson? There is another video of her shooting at camp Perry.

look at all that woodland pattern, no digital crap in sight.

Is the full video available anywhere? I remember watching it as a boot.

1999 the Corps needs to update its 2017.

exactly, first identify the target then focus on aligning the sights, when you cant see the target is the moment to shoot. Am i correct?

@Ga5524 Well yes, everything used to be better in the older times. It's always like that. The good old days ^^

hey nice vid pal

06:33 Private Urquell is using the sling in a very painful way.

...what?...

Sound is very low. Hard to understand the narrative.

Does the audio sound muffled to anyone else? Also, the presenter seems more soft than those from the many other Army Pictoral Service videos from the 1940s and 50s. It's like a sexual harassment training film. I also notice that he says "bring accurate fire on the *target*" instead of "on the *enemy*". Damned political correctness.

6/19/2020 What is the purpose of holding the trigger side elbow high?

lmfao what in the fuck did you just say....

why would my comrades think if shooting me , dont shoot me with a stare , im there on the depot . my survival .. my gear that makes me warm , and noone as close as the heat of my ciggerrete , like nothing else matters . the bullets on target no new hand tricks or eye blinks. rah , dont tread the bayonet

2 to 6 inches for the Female Marine....

Marines apply their military intelligence.

muh call of duty

World famous pmi ssgt johnson

what pogue made this video? check it out,, breath control on the range is deep breath in, half way out and you hold it there...If you have your sight alignment and sight picture the whole time, you be in the black every time...The trigger pull is a slow steady squeeze to the rear and should be a surprise when the round pops...The dude firing standing up didnt have his elbow of his non trigger arm tucked in to his body which is huge in that position in addition to aiming above the target and

13:01

im pretty sure this was narrated by microsoft sam.

Ya know.....its not a bad introduction video to shooting. Notice they had to show a chick Marine just to be Politically Correct. :) I was a shooting instructor and range coach Canadian Infantry late 70's. Women won a court case to be permitted in the Combatt Arms.....Headaches and Problems from day one. And every guy was sucking up to them to try to get laid (lol)

not neccesarly. not every round you shoot is going to hit meat. This is just very basic marksmanship.

Audio quality is unbearable.

16:28 Did that dude shoot a cat or something?

Weird sound

Where my PIZZA BOX Peoples at🥰🥰🥰🥰

LIke anyone's going to go through that whole breath control crap during an actual firefight....

Lousy sound quality-----!

1 sailor watched this

is it me or am i going deaf???

O|GE, Q E N S

lol

Holy SHIT! That female Marine is HOT! :D

The forgot the part where, after you pull the trigger, you experience the horrible mental anguish because you just killed another human being. Then the procedure is to drink to excess, lose your job, and so on...