Talk:Marksman

message: Nothing at all about the Czarist Russian Sharpshooter battalions of the Imperial Guard? Oh well... Something for me to write up, I guess...TLein 10:48, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Crossed rifles is a marksman designation. there is an "S" in between the barrels for a sniper. Here's an old (1984) recruiting poster with them on the bottom left:  RayBarker (talk) 10:18, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  A bit US-centric? 

message: The term sharpshooter should be explained. The term comes from the Sharps rifle... Contralya (talk) 10:18, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sharpshooter 

message: I just noticed that the first subsection uses the acronym SDM/DM without explanation.  I believe this refers- one second- 74.132.62.250 (talk) 01:59, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  SDM/DM not explained 

message: the article says "marksman is an individual who is trained to shoot precisely with a certain type of rifle." now the phrase a "certain type of rifle" implies that a marksman is only uses rifle a a certain kind, that is not named. However the article mentions accuracy with pistols and has a picture of a bowmen. Rds865 (talk) 06:15, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistency 

message: are the Olympic shooters considered marksmen? Rds865 (talk) 22:06, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Olympic Shooters 

message: Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 11:23, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008 

message: This article redirects from marksmanship, but it seems like this article is basically a small extension of the "Sniper" article and may even cover some of the same material.
:I think an article on MARKSMANSHIP is needed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.112.99.93 (talk) 15:40, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: i agree "marksmanship" is its own concept. Sniper is a military term  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.82.143.169 (talk) 16:16, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marksmanship, Marksman, and Sniper 

message: I deleted what I'm going to call pretty obvious vandalism in this article.  The chances that a highly skilled marksman would share a name with a far more famous blind woman are so small as to be not worth considering without the Mother of All Citations.  Furthermore, the poster, one Hilowhills has made exactly one edit.
Now, how this was missed for the better part of a month is a mystery to me.  Just bad/good luck (depending on your point of view), I guess...
*Septegram*Talk*Contributions* 20:57, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: Marines are required to qualify with their individual T.O. weapon annually. For most enlisted Marines that weapon is the M16A2 service rifle. 
Qualification scores are used, along with the Physical Fitness score as part of the overall requirement for promotion to the next rank and failure to qualify with your weapon can quite literally mean the end of a Marines military career.  
To qualify with the rifle, Marines must accurately fire the rifle at targets from 200 yard standing, kneeling and sitting, 300 yard sitting and rapid fire prone, as well as 500 yard prone. A point system is used to score each round fired with the highest possible score being 250 points. 
The lowest possible level of qualification is that of Marksman for which a Marine must score between 190 and 209 points. 
A Marine is considered a Sharpshooter if he scores between 210 and 219 points.
The highest possible qualification, that of Rifle Expert, is earned by Marines firing a score of 220 and above.  
As of October 1st, 2005 Marines are also required to complete three hours of classroom training, and practical application drills, followed by two to three days of classroom and live-fire training in close combat shooting. 
Marines are required to pass all three phases of this training and, will fire in excess of 500 rounds simply to qualify.
 
In addition to the three basic Marksman, Sharpshooter and Expert badges, Marines recognized for winning national, and international marksmanship competitions, as well as the winners of Marine Corps marksmanship competition matches are authorized to wear the Distinguished Marksman Badge which in worn in place of the regular marksmanship badge. 
Semper Fidelis
John M. Snyder
Gunnery Sergeant USMC Retired
12th Award Rifle Expert 
--71.77.210.142 (talk) 20:16, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  MARINE CORPS MARKSMANSHIP 

message: "During the American Civil War, sharpshooters saw limited action, as tacticians sought to avoid the heavy casualties inflicted through normal tactics, which involved close ranks of men at close ranges."  As written, this seems to imply that - in order to reduce casulties - tacticians restricted the use of marksmen.  I presume the intended meaning is "in order to reduce casulties, tacticians started using markmen tactics rather than close rank tactics (but only to a limited extent, because it was a new tactic)".  Can someone confirm what the intended meaning is, and suggest a re-write to make it clearer? 62.172.108.24 (talk) 14:21, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguous wording 

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