FISCAL YEAR 2025 COMBAT MARKSMANSHIP SYMPOSIUM POST-SYMPOSIUM
Date Signed: 2/3/2025 | MARADMINS Number: 052/25
MARADMINS : 052/25

R 031851Z FEB 25
MARADMIN 052/25
MSGID/GENADMIN/CG TECOM QUANTICO VA//
SUBJ/FISCAL YEAR 2025 COMBAT MARKSMANSHIP SYMPOSIUM POST-SYMPOSIUM//
REF/A/MCO 3574.2M/06Apr2022//
REF/B/MCRP 8-10B.2 RIFLE MARKSMANSHIP//
REF/C/MCRP 8-10B.3 PISTOL MARKSMANSHIP//
REF/D/CMS CHARTER/NOVEMBER 2021//
REF/E/MARINE CORPS MARKSMANSHIP CAMPAIGN PLAN (MCP) 2024//
NARR/REF A IS THE MARINE CORPS ORDER FOR THE MARINE CORPS COMBAT
MARKSMANSHIP PROGRAMS (MCCMP).  REF B IS THE MARINE CORPS REFERENCE
PUB FOR RIFLE MARKSMANSHIP.  REF C IS THE MARINE CORPS REFERENCE PUB
FOR PISTOL MARKSMANSHIP.  REF D IS THE CMS CHARTER.  REF E IS THE
MARINE CORPS MCP.  
POC/ J. C. GRAYEK/GUNNER (CWO4)/DIRECTOR, MARKSMANSHIP PROGRAM
MANAGEMENT SECTION (MPMS), WTBN QUANTICO, TEL: 703 784-5275/EMAIL:
WTBN_QUAN_MPMS@USMC.MIL//
POC/ M. L. PAUGH/GYSGT/SNCOIC, MARKSMANSHIP PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
SECTION (MPMS), WTBN QUANTICO, TEL: 703 784-5450/EMAIL:
WTBN_QUAN_MPMS@USMC.MIL//
GENTEXT/REMARKS/1.  Per reference (a), the Commanding General,
Training and Education Command serves as the sponsor for the Marine
Corps Combat Marksmanship Program (MCCMP).  Commanding General,
Training Command staffs and distributes products developed by MCCMP
Proponent.  The Commanding Officer, Weapons Training Battalion (WTBn)
Quantico, serves as the Marksmanship Proponent.  The Director of the
Marksmanship Program Management Section (MPMS), WTBn Quantico, serves
as the Office of Primary Responsibility (OPR) for items in the MCCMP
order.  MPMS develops, maintains, and updates all master lesson files
and other supporting documentation for conducting marksmanship
training throughout the Marine Corps.  MPMS has direct liaison
authority with other commands where necessary and appropriate to
accomplish these efforts. 
2.  WTBn Quantico hosted the FY25  Combat Marksmanship Symposium
(CMS) from 16-18 October 2024.  The CMS provides a single forum for
key leaders from across the Total Force to consider combat
marksmanship issues and subsequently provide senior leadership an
accurate picture of the Service’s current marksmanship state along
with recommendations for the future.  Reference (e) is the Marine
Corps Marksmanship Campaign Plan (MCP), which was signed on
16 September 2024, and charged the Force to realize a quantitative
increase in individual Marine and unit lethality to meet the demands
of the future operating environment.  The FY25 CMS was conducted with
the explicit focus on realizing the MCP vision in its entirety.
Post-CMS, TECOM’s Marksmanship Working Group (MWG) will ensure the
MCP’s specified tasks are completed as directed.
3.  The FY25 CMS included the following working groups (WG):
Entry-Level Qualification (ELQ), the Marksmanship Instructor Training
Continuum, Joint Marksmanship Assessment Package (JMAP) Fielding,
Precision Marksman and Advanced Precision Marksman Way Forward, and
Infantry Marksmanship Assessment standardization at the Schools of
Infantry (SOI). 
4.  At the CMS’s conclusion, the following items were brought forward
for MCCMP sponsor and proponent review and decision, and all were
approved: 
4.a.  The ELQ WG developed the plan to achieve MCP task IO 1.1.1
and 3.3.2.  IO 1.1.1 directs the development of a training program to
progress a Marine from having never fired a weapon to qualifying with
an Annual Rifle Qualification (ARQ)-like evaluation and ultimately
with a complete ARQ evaluation by FY29.  IO 3.3.2 directs a
proof-of-concept test on recruit populations firing the ARQ and
building on the success of ongoing entry-level officer ARQ
implementation.
4.b.  Marksmanship Instructor Training Continuum.  To reduce
redundancy and increase efficiency between four different
marksmanship courses, WTBN-Quantico will conduct a proof-of-concept
course beginning in third quarter FY25.  This proof-of-concept will
consolidate the associated tasks between the existing courses and
increase instructor capacity.  Instructor development will account
for planned fielding of JMAP IAW reference (e). Further discussion
will be conducted at the FY26 CMS.
4.c.  Precision Marksmanship.  The CMS included extensive discussions
focused on the intent to have one precision marksman (PM) per rifle
squad in each infantry battalion along with the future Advanced PM
leadership billet tasked in Ref (e).  Both items will be the focus
of a Total Force Operational Planning Team (OPT) to be conducted in
January 2025, with further OPT details released SEPCOR.  
4.d.  SOI Standards for the Infantry Marksmanship Assessment (IMA)
and Rifleman Marksmanship Assessment (RMA).  
4.d.1.  WTBN-Quantico IMA and RMA guidelines to the SOIs via
separate correspondence coinciding with this message.  The guidelines
will include event setup, execution, and administrative instructions
to ensure standardized execution of the events. The standards or
minimum scores required for each stage of the IMA and RMA are
effective with this message and will be re-assessed on 1 April 2025.
4.d.2.  The zero stage of the IMA and RMA was not previously
recorded with sufficient data points to establish a clear minimum
standard.  IAW the revised guidelines, the zero stage will be
recorded to collect data without a minimum requirement, which will
allow for a revised standard to be implemented on 1 April 2025.
5.  The CMS met its intent to gain a clear picture of the current
state of Marine Corps marksmanship and the next steps required to
achieve the MCP vision.  WTBN-Quantico shall draft a calling message
for the FY26 CMS in May 2025 announcing the symposium dates,
anticipated topics based on the MCP, and to solicit further inputs
from the Total Force.  
6.  Contact the POCs for any requests for information.
7.  Release authorized by Lieutenant General Benjamin T. Watson,
Commanding General, Training and Education Command.//