As a 22 year Army Infantry Soldier, I would, in general, tend to agree with this. I believe the Marine Corps does a better job of teaching the fundamentals of marksmanship than the Army. I think I was fortunate in the fact that one of my DIs was sniper qualified, and the other a Ranger, so we had the basics drilled into us relentlessly. Yet, I've seen numbers of former Marine Infantryman have trouble qualifying the Army rifle qualification course. Additionally, and this isn't a dig, but hasn't the Marine Corps been losing to the Army, and others, in regular sniper competitions?
I'm old enough to remember when there weren't enough M16a2 rifles to go around and once we qualified, we traded them out for M16a1 rifles. I carried a standard M16a2 through the 1990s, and the weight didn't bother me. It is a good rifle and I, for one, would have no issue using one on the two way range.
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