Marines have the option to use barricades placed at the 100 and the 200-yard lines, as well as their own equipment. The ARQ course of fire also encourages Marines to use available objects for support for more stable firing positions, Liston said. Marines will also have to engage moving targets from 200 yards that move from left to right at four miles per hour across a 16-foot span, then turn around and come back, moving from right to left. The third drill is a failure-to-stop drill that requires the Marine to engage it while moving from the 25-yard line to the 15-yard line, Costa said. The 25-yard box drill is similar to the failure to stop drill but features two targets, requiring the Marine to 'two in the chest in the first target, two to the chest in the second target, one to the brain box on the second target and come back over to the first one to put another one in the brain box,' Costa said. This is 'mimicking the enemy threat wearing body armor, so the two shots to the chest, he just absorbed it and took it like a champ, so you've got to put one in the brain box to drop him,' Costa said. There is a 25-yard failure-to-stop drill which requires Marines to put two shots to the head and one to the face. but the drills also require that drill to be executed properly,' Costa said. 'The biggest difference between destroys and drills is they both require lethal shots. There are also drill targets that put Marines through a sequenced scenario involving an enemy at close range. The course consists of 50 destroy targets with lethal zones marked in the chest and face area. Day Two is for prequalification training and day three is for qualifying.

Day One is for zeroing and working out the point of aim on targets when using the Rifle Combat Optic or the new Squad Common Optic, Costa said. Unlike the ART course which takes 10-14 days to complete, Marines will complete the ARQ in three days. 'We have the Marines engage from far to near to foster a more offensive mindset as they are closing in on the enemy targets,' said Gunner John Costa, director of the Marksmanship Program Management Section at the Weapons Training Battalion. Enlisted Marine recruits and officer candidates in entry-level training will continue to go through the ART qualification course, Liston said.ДЇrom there, Marines in the operational force will qualify once a year on the ARQ course, which has Marines engage targets at distances ranging from 500 yards down to 15 yards, all while wearing helmet, body armor and load-bearing equipment.

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