It covers four categories of what the Army considers "individual" weapons: the rifle and carbine pistol the automatic rifle and sniper rifles. Military Academy at West Point, as well as the Army Reserve and National Guard. The Dot-40 applies to the entire Army - the active duty force, including cadets at the U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence, or MCoE. The Infantry School is part of Fort Benning's U.S. Fortenberry, who currently oversees the Infantry School's marksmanship revamp project and is the Infantry School's senior enlisted leader. "It's exactly what we would do in a combat environment, and I think it's just going to build a much better shooter," said Command Sgt. Referred to informally as the "Dot-40," it runs to more than 800 pages and contains four chapters and nine appendixes.
The overhaul is spelled out in a new marksmanship manual titled "TC 3-20.40, Training and Qualification-Individual Weapons." Those skills include Soldiers' ability to load, reload and otherwise handle their weapons just as they'd have to in the blur and stress of combat. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia. It's geared to ensuring that every Soldier - whether in a combat job or not - is trained from the start to not only hit targets but to have the other basic "tactical" weapon skills needed for combat, according to interviews with officials of the U.S. The combat-oriented revamp replaces a training system that dates to the Cold War era. Army has drawn up a sweeping overhaul of how it will train Soldiers in using small arms - rifles, pistols and automatic rifles - a revamp that adds tougher standards and combat-like rigor to training and testing marksmanship.
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