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The basic qualification course of fire is pretty simple for pistol, and more focus is put on rifle quals. It's also well agreed by most shooters that the basic pistol quals is pretty easy, and only trains on basic fundamentals. Every Marine is a rifleman after all. Paragraph d offers a few more challenges with different shooting positions and drawing from a holster. That's usually done as per deployment training, or if OIC can convince the S-4 to do something more in depth with pistol training, though they're more willing to give leeway with rifle training.
I got my OpsO to green light going more in depth and breaking out the shotguns, but couldn't convince him to let me practice movement to contact like Table 2 with rifle quals. Would've been fantastic training, but too many brand new shooters.
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